 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
WOMEN, WORK AND PENSIONS
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND PROSPECTS |
| By: |
Jay Ginn (Editor), Dr. Debra A. Street (Editor), Sara Arber (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£69.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
033520595X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780335205950 |
| Publisher: |
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2001 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Examines how women's paid and unpaid work, interacting with the gendered pension systems of six liberal welfare states - Britain, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand - contributes to female poverty in later life. |
| Synopsis: |
Population aging has fuelled interest in pensions and intergenerational equity, leading to privatization of pensions. Yet the gender implications of such policies and the connections between the gender contract and the generational contract remain unexplored. "Women, Work and Pensions" examines how women's paid and unpaid work, interacting with the gendered pensions systems of six liberal welfares states - Britain, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand - contribute to female poverty in later life. By comparing how these welfare states deal with women's employment, family roles and pension entitlement, the nature of the residual welfare model is better understood. Changes over the past three decades in the gender contract and in women's employment suggest that family caring may have less impact on women's pensions in the future. Yet pensions reforms which diminish the effectiveness of women-friendly features in state pensions through cuts and privatization point in the opposite direction. This issue, and how the pension penalties of caring vary with women's class, ethnicity and birth cohort, are major themes of the book. |
| Illustrations: |
glossary, references, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Open University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|