The last career transition? A gendered perspective on retirement

Tomlinson, Frances (2018) The last career transition? A gendered perspective on retirement. In: Research handbook of diversity and careers. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781785365591

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Retirement, understood as a process of final disengagement from the labour market and paid employment, is currently being re-examined and rethought. Specifically the impact of rapidly ageing populations in western industrialised societies has increased the pressure on people to extend their working lives beyond the traditional age of retirement. This chapter explores the surrounding debates from a gendered perspective, focusing on contrasts in the retirement experiences of men and women and the impact of retirement on gender relations. It draws on the accounts of UK women at, or approaching, retirement age to illustrate the issues of choice, control and constraint that are involved in transitioning (or not) into retirement, and it concludes by briefly considering the implications of this overview for individuals, for organizations and for institutions more widely.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	age, retirement, gender, identity
Subjects:	300 Social sciences
Department:	Guildhall School of Business and Law
Depositing User:	Frances Tomlinson
Date Deposited:	05 Jul 2019 10:00
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2019 10:00
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/4969

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