Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life

Áine Ní Léime is a Marie Sklodowska Curie International Outgoing Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway. She conducts research on gender, ageing and work.Debra Street is Chair of the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Sarah Vickerstaff is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Kent, UK.Clary Krekula is Associated Professor of Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden. She undertakes research on critical age studies and on organisational ageing.Wendy Loretto is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender and age in employment.

• PART ONE: Gendering later life work: Empirical, theoretical and policy issuesThe empirical landscape of extended working lives ~ Debra StreetTheoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda ~ Clary Krekula and Sarah Vickerstaff Gender perspectives on extended working life policies ~ Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto PART TWO: Extended working life in seven OECD countriesThe Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective ~ Elizabeth BrookeExtended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition ~ Anna Hokema Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline FinnAgeing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach ~ Sara Falcão Casaca and Heloísa PeristaSweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations ~ Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engström and Aida AlviniusThe United Kingdom - a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer ~ Sarah Vickerstaff and Wendy LorettoIs 70 the new 60? Extending American women’s and men’s working lives ~ Debra Street and Joanne TompkinsPART THREE: ConclusionGendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life ~ Sarah Vickerstaff, Debra Street, Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula

"The 11 contributions challenge widely accepted assumptions about later-life work and retirement by grounding their reflections in empirical evidence from a range of national and international sources… Overall, this book offers a welcome, evidence-based perspective on extended working lives in which the arguments are inspired by rich empirical data.” Ageing and Society