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Grey power: age-based organisations' response to structured inequalities
- Author:
- GINN Jay
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 38, Autumn 1993, pp.23-47.
- Publisher:
- Sage
One consequence of the ageing of populations is the portrayal of elderly people as threatening the viability of welfare states; in particu lar, those who wish to justify cuts in public pensions depict the elderly as increasingly affluent and powerful relative to the rest of society. This article challenges such a view of elderly people in Britain as an ageist myth which serves to distract attention from the real sources of economic problems and from inequalities in elderly people's income and power which vary by class, gender and race. Because ageing affects men and women in different ways elderly women are not only poorer than men but also have lower social status, disadvantages Which are compounded for black women. Examination of publications of older people's campaigning organ isations in Britain and the USA shows that elderly people do not align themselves politically on the basis of age but of class. Although women participate at all levels in 'grey power', older peoples organis ations have largely neglected the issues of gender and race. Whereas older women in the USA have highlighted injustices to women and achieved some reforms, British older women have not yet mobiused as effectively.
European pension privatisation: taking account of gender
- Author:
- GINN Jay
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 3(2), April 2004, pp.123-134.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article argues that, despite considerable variation among countries in the nature of their private pension schemes, the latter share a failure to incorporate allowances for periods of unpaid caring work over the lifecourse. Argues comparison of the needs-satisfying capacity of private and public pensions must take account of the situation of those who raise the next generation of producers and taxpayers.
Connecting gender and ageing: a sociological approach
- Editors:
- ARBER Sara, GINN Jay
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 224p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Challenges the assumption that gender can be treated as static over the life course and highlights the differential social effects of ageing on women's and men's roles, relationships and identity. Includes papers on: conformity and resistance as women age; choice and constraint in the retirement of older married women; the married lives of older people; changes in gender roles in advanced old age; caring between older couples; gender roles, employment and informal care; and gender and elder abuse.
Longer working: imposition or opportunity?
- Authors:
- GINN Jay, ARBER Sara
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 6(2), July 2005, pp.26-35.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
In this paper, attitudes to employment and to alternative uses of time are analysed for British midlife men and women, focusing on changes during the 1990s. Data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) are used to compare the attitudes and perceptions of two cohorts of individuals aged 50-69 to paid employment; and how these vary according to age group, gender, marital status and education. To what extent did new employment and pension policies in the 1990s result in changes in midlife attitudes to paid work?
Gender, age and attitudes to retirement in mid-life
- Authors:
- GINN Jay, ARBER Sara
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(1), January 1996, pp.27-55.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
British research on exit from the labour market has been mainly concerned with men, but US research shows retirement for women is equally salient. Gender differences in attitudes to employment and reasons for early exit are relevant to employment and pension policy. In this paper data from the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative survey is used to examine gender differences in attitudes to employment among over 2,500 British women and men aged 40 to 59. A key concern was to discover whether the decline in mid-life women's employment through their fifties could be explained by a change in attitudes with age, or was more likely to be due to age-related barriers in the labour market. Discusses the research findings.