Women, Work and Pensions: International Issues and Prospects - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033520595X ISBN 13: 9780335205950

Publisher: Open Univ Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Six English-speaking countries were selected as case studies because they embody the residual model of welfare being promoted elsewhere by the World Bank, and because the shared cultural heritage and orientation to welfare provides a common background against which variations in women's access to pensions can be compared. Sociologists from these countries examine whether the apparent revolution in women's employment participation over the past few decades means that working age women will escape the poverty their mothers and grandmothers are experiencing, and inquire into prospects for reducing inequality in later life income for the future. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Jay Ginn is employed on an ESRC Research Fellowship in the Sociology Department of the University of Surrey and is a Co-director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender. She has published widely on gender differences in the economic and health resources of older people. With Sara Arber, she co-authored Gender and Later Life (Sage, 1991) and co-edited Connecting Gender and Ageing (Open University Press, 1995)Debra Street is employed as a Research Scientist at the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University and researches pension and health policy issues. She has articles published in several leading North American sociology journals, and is co-editor of Ageing for the Twenty-first Century (St Martin's, 1996), a widely used social gerontology reader.Sara Arber is Professor and Head of Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey and a Co-director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender. She is well known nationally and internationally for her work on ageing, caring and health. She co-authored Gender and Later Life (Sage, 1991) and co-edited Connecting Gender and Ageing (Open University Press, 1995), both with Jay Ginn, and Ageing, Independence and the Life Course (Jessica Kingsley, 1993, with Maria Evandrou) and The Myth of Generational Conflict (Routledge, 1999, with Claudine Attias-Donfut).

Review:

"...an excellent book that is both extremely timely and highly relevant. It should be of interest to many colleagues; especially those concerned with issues of social policy, feminist studies and gerontology." - Christina Victor

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 033520595X
• ISBN 13: 9780335205950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Ginn Jay, Street Debra, Arber Sara