Thanks to Dr. Hanna Frederick for this notice about a new book coming out about women and retirement, a topic of continued interest at 70candles.com. You can find it on Amazon.
How have you steered your retiement transition and all that has followed? Any tips to share?
Women and Retirement: Challenges of a New Life Stage (Paperback) book cover
Women and Retirement
Challenges of a New Life Stage
By Susan Moore, Doreen Rosenthal
Routledge
148 pages
In the last century, changes to the nature and patterns of women’s working lives have been vast. Notably, the huge increase in women’s participation in the paid workforce means that today women are retiring in unprecedented numbers. How do they cope with this lifestyle transition? What major difficulties do they face? How do they process the problems associated with managing this transition in fulfilling ways while juggling family, financial, friendship, ageing and health issues? To date, most retirement studies have focused on men, and therefore gender-specific issues relating to post-work life, such as the pay gap, the double shift, women’s longer lifespans and their traditional roles as carers and social nurturers, have been afforded far less attention.
Women and Retirement: Challenges of a New Life Stage is the first book of its kind to examine women’s retirement using a lifespan perspective. Based on the authors’ extensive study of over 1,000 retired Australian women as well as current research, the book presents models of various retirement trajectories and compares women’s experiences with the more widely researched retirement experiences of men. Moore and Rosenthal consider the nature of the transition from full-time work to retirement and the many different pathways and factors influencing this journey: women’s financial status in the retirement years; their health changes; and the varied activity patterns they adopt.
Women and Retirement is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of the female retirement experience. It will be invaluable for courses on ageing and health within psychology, women’s studies, social work and sociology, and for use by practitioners in these fields.
Love reading every letter.
Thank you so much
Cindy
Who gets to retire if you’re poor? That is a luxury, sadly many of us don’t have. Poor planning, bad luck, there are many reasons why good women can’t retire. I feel lucky I can work at 70, can support my husband and just pay the rent. I’m tired, but will keep on going.
This book looks very interesting. I am 80 years old, have retired twice and currently working 32-40 hours/per week. And would enjoy reading such a book.
However, the book is $37.00 (paperback), $38.00 (Kindle), $133 (hardback). This is very expensive for a 148 page book. I hope the listed prices are in error.
Annette Steiner