Gender, pensions and the lifecourse: How pensions need to adapt to changing family forms
Jay Ginn
Abstract
An emerging consensus sees British pension policy as unravelling. Yet the gender impact of expanding private pension provision and relying increasingly on means-testing has been largely overlooked. This book examines key issues such as: how pension choices over the lifecourse are structured by gender, class, and ethnicity; the impact of changing patterns of partnership and parenthood on pension building; the distributional impact of privatising pensions; questions about individualisation of rights, survivor benefits, a citizen's pension, and means-testing; and the EU dimension – comparing alte ... More
Keywords: British pension policy, gender, class, ethnicity, parenthood, partnership, privatisation, survivor benefits, European Union
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9781861343383 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861343383.001.0001 |
