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| Gender roles and employment pathways of older women and men in England | | Author(s) | Mariska van der Horst, David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Charlotte Clark, Ben Baumberg Geiger |
| Journal title | Sage Open, vol 7, no 4, October-December 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1-17 |
| Source | Kent Academic Repository: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/63692/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017742690 |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Employment of older people ; Part time employment ; Postponement [retirement] ; Longitudinal surveys ; Quantitative studies ; England. |
| Annotation | In the context of population ageing, the UK government is encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement, and it is claimed that many people now make "gradual" transitions from full-time to part-time work to retirement. However, part-time employment in older age may be largely due to women working part-time before older age, as per a UK "modified male breadwinner" model. This article therefore separately examines the extent to which men and women make transitions into part-time work in older age, and whether such transitions are influenced by marital status. Following older men and women over a 10-year period using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), this article presents sequence, cluster, and multinomial logistic regression analyses. Little evidence is found for people moving into part-time work in older age. Typically, women did not work at all, or they worked part-time (with some remaining in part-time work and some retiring or exiting from this activity). Consistent with a "modified male breadwinner" logic, marriage was positively related to the likelihood of women belonging to typically "female employment pathway clusters", which mostly consist of part-time work or not being employed. Men were mostly working full-time, regardless of marital status. Attempts to extend older women's working lives are therefore likely to be complicated by the influence of traditional gender roles on employment. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180706001 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: GC: WJF: G5H: 3J: 3DQ: 82 * |
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