- Title
- After work? Understanding older women’s portfolio life transitions
- Creator
- Taylor, Philip; Earl, Catherine; Brooke, Elizabeth; McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/175391
- Identifier
- vital:14969
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477166.00012
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781783477159
- Abstract
- Chapter 7 reports qualitative interviews with older women about the pursuit of an active, fulfilling and productive retirement, and the mechanisms that promote these outcomes. Contrary to notions of the blended lifecycle, analysis reveals a stark division between paid work and retirement for many women at the same time as an ongoing commitment to socially valued and productive albeit unpaid activities that form a portfolio career. Furthermore , analysis reveals an increased sense of autonomy and control over decision making among retired women that contrasts with their experiences of paid employment.
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Relation
- Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 7 p. 111-119
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Edward Elgar Publishing
- Subject
- Older women -- Employment.; Women employees.; Older women -- Retirement.
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