Family Responsibilities and Women's Retirement

Hatch, Laurie Russell; Thompson, A. L.

doi:10.4135/9781483325354.n6

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“…For instance, long periods of unemployment (Beehr and Bennett 2008) or long work disruptions due to childbearing may induce employees to postpone retirement to earn higher pension benefits (Henretta, O'Rand, and Chan 1993). Partner status is also linked to retirement decisions: non-married and divorced individuals tend to retire later (Hatch and Thompson 1992), and married individuals coordinate their retirement transitions with one another, especially if they are satisfied with their marriage (Reitzes, Mutran, and Fernandez 1998). Husbands tend to postpone retirement, as they are often older than their spouses, and wives tend to retire earlier (Ho and Raymo 2009).…”

Section: Other Predictors Of Retirement Timingmentioning

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Retirement timing and grandparenthood: A population-based study on Sweden

Kridahl¹

2017

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Retirement timing and grandparenthood: A population-based study on Sweden

Kridahl¹

2017

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“…Many indicate a weak to moderate negative association between employment and caregiving. For example, Hatch and Thompson (1992) used cross-sectional data from a national sample of 55-to 70-year-old women with at least 5 years of work experience and document a small negative association between labor force participation and providing care to a chronically ill or disabled individual within the home.…”

Section: Relationships Between Employment and Caregiving In Late Midlifementioning

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Informal Caregiving and Retirement Timing among Men and Women

Dentinger

Clarkberg

2002

Journal of Family Issues

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Informal caregiving, or the provision of unpaid, voluntary care to elderly or disabled family and friends, is an increasingly common experience for both men and women in late midlife. The authors examine the ways in which informal caregiving influences the transition to retirement and how this relationship is shaped by gender. Our data are 763 pension-eligible men and women in the 1994-1995 Cornell Retirement and Well-Being Study. Results from discrete-time event history analyses indicate that certain types of caregiving shape the timing of retirement but that the association depends on the relationship between caregiver and care recipient and is fundamentally moderated by gender. For example, wives caring for their husbands have retirement odds 5 times greater than women who are not caregivers, whereas husbands caring for their wives are substantially slower to retire. Our evidence suggests that in this sample, caregiving responsibilities lead to increased sex role-typical employment behavior in late midlife.

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“…Hatch and Thompson (1992), who looked at various factors that predicted the decision to retire among women, found that having an ill or disabled household member who required assistance was the greatest predictor of retirement among women.…”

Section: Caregiving and Retirementmentioning

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Women and Retirement

Richardson¹

1999

Journal of Women & Aging

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A feminist analysis of retirement is presented by questioning the applicability of traditional definitions and theories of retirement to retired women. The effects of marriage, caregiving and other family obligations on women's retirement are examined within the context of salient social, psychological and economic factors. An empowerment-oriented perspective that considers interactions and connections between family and work roles, public and private and personal and political levels are recommended to alleviate the high poverty rates among older women, to promote parity among men and women during retirement and to emancipate women from substantial involvement in unpaid work, specifically, caregiving and home labor.

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Family Responsibilities and Women's Retirement

Cited by 26 publications

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Retirement timing and grandparenthood: A population-based study on Sweden

Retirement timing and grandparenthood: A population-based study on Sweden

Informal Caregiving and Retirement Timing among Men and Women

Women and Retirement

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