Gender Differences in Orientation Toward Retirement From Paid Labor

Bibliographic Data

ID2368993
AuthorsLaurie Russell Hatch (University of Kentucky, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume6
Issue1
Pages66-85
Publication date1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/089124392006001005
OpenAlexW2005947165
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited45

Recent studies have reported gender differences in older workers' orientations toward retirement, with women expressing less favorable views. This study of 557 women and 245 men in their 60s, not currently married, showed that previously married women, who often face a poor financial situation in retirement, were less likely than previously married men to agree that older workers should retire and also were less likely to define themselves as retirees. Never-married women and men did not differ on these measures of retirement orientation, but they did differ on a more general measure of well-being, with the women holding a more positive attitude toward life in retirement. This article concludes that differences in women's and men's occupational and economic circumstances are responsible in part for gender differences reported in the retirement literature, but in addition, marital circumstances also exert an important influence. Thus retirement policies based solely on gender seem unwarranted

Demographic economics · Economics · Marital status · Population · Sociology · Demography · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Global Health Care Issues · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment

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