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Women and Retirement: The Effect of Multiple Careers on Retirement Adjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Ingrid Connidis
Ingrid Connidis
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University of Western Ontario
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Abstract

Female retirement has received very limited attention in the research literature. In this paper, the concept of career set is employed as the basis for a framework designed to analyse the impact of women's involvement in multiple careers on their adjustment to retirement. An extensive review of existing literature leads the author to conclude that the familial careers engaged in by married, working women have a mediative effect on their transition to retirement. In order to understand female retirement it is necessary to examine the interplay of multiple careers and their relative salience to women in the labour force.

Résumé

La retraite féminine a fait l'objet de très peu de recherches. Dans la présente communication, le concept d'ensemble professionnel sert de base à l'élaboration d'un cadre destiné à l'analyse des effets, sur l'adaptation des femmes à la retraite, de leur engagement dans des occupations multiples. Une recension poussée de la littérature permet à l'auteur de conclure que les occupations familiales des femmes mariées qui travaillent ont pour effet de médiatiser leur passage à la retraite. Si l'on veut comprendre la retraite féminine, il est nécessaire d'examiner le jeu des multiples occupations féminines et leur importance relative dans la vie des femmes qui travaillent.

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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 1 , Issue 3-4 , December 1982 , pp. 17 - 27
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1982

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