Abstract
Focusing on financial outcomes in retirement for women, this paper critically examines the suite of “productivist” policies proposed by leading regional and global policy institutions as a solution to what they perceive as a potential population ageing crisis. Specifically, the paper challenges the claim that this suite of policies constitutes a virtuous system. Taking the life course timing of women’s paid and unpaid work, we successively integrate the likely key consequences of “productivist ageing” policy in a series of retirement income scenarios. The series culminates in a situation where a mother twice enters and leaves paid employment to provide respectively child care and elder care. Rather than illustrating a sustainable system, our results indicate a viscous, intergenerational cycle in which impoverished caregivers are in turn forced to rely on the unpaid care of their adult daughters.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 453-473 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Journal of Population Ageing |
Volume | 12 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- population ageing
- pensions
- retirement
- government policy
- women