Customizing women’s portfolio work and ‘retirement’ careers

Title: Customizing women’s portfolio work and ‘retirement’ careers
Creator: Taylor, Philip; Earl, Catherine; Brooke, Elizabeth; McLoughlin, Christopher
Date: 2021
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/175385
Identifier: vital:14970
Identifier: ISBN:9781783477159
Abstract: Chapter 8 reports qualitative interviews with older women, drawing from the concepts of biographical work-life balance and portfolio careers. It focuses on older women who were in part-time work but who self-identified as having made a transition to retirement. Many had longstanding careers and stable networks, accrued skills and financial resources, supported a well-endowed quality of portfolio lives, whereas those who experienced ‘unbalanced’ portfolio retirement were more likely to be lacking resources from their working lives. The analysis reinforces the notion that retirement should be viewed as a process and not an event and that it is impossible to tell a single story of women's post-work transitions.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 8 p. 122-134
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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