Gender and Generation: Focus on Women Baby Boomers’ Approaches to Retirement
Gender and Generations: Continuity and Change
ISBN: 978-1-80071-033-7, eISBN: 978-1-80071-032-0
Publication date: 15 March 2021
Abstract
Using a life course perspective, this chapter examines four twentieth-century US generations and the influence of generation on women, especially related to education, work life, and retirement. The Baby Boomers constitute the largest of these birth cohorts to move into retirement. A literature review and illustrative examples of trends explore whether the substantial social and legal changes, with accompanying norms and values, that influenced Baby Boomers’ earlier lives continue to characterize their approach to retirement. Social, medical, and legal changes increased access to education, work life, and longer lifespans for many Boomer women. However, substantial socioeconomic and racial inequality must be addressed to expand access to a healthy, satisfying, and financially adequate retirement stage for men and women Boomers and following generations.
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Citation
Kirsh, B. (2021), "Gender and Generation: Focus on Women Baby Boomers’ Approaches to Retirement", Demos, V. and Segal, M.T. (Ed.) Gender and Generations: Continuity and Change (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620210000030005
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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