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Women and men - growing old working in an unequal world

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Vendramin, Patricia [UCL] Valenduc, Gérard [UCL]

European policies have steadily whittled down the idea of active aging to an aim of working longer. But exhortations to delay retirement disregard the unequal abilities of older workers. Specially, they obscure the inequalities between woemn and men derived from segregation in employment but also the unequal division of daily tasks.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de vulgarisation
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2014
Language Anglais
Journal information "HESAMAG" - , no.10, p. 6-11 (autumn-winter 2014)
Publisher European Trade Union Institute (Bruxelles)
issn 2078-6816
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
Keywords Gender and aging at work
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Bibliographic reference Vendramin, Patricia ; Valenduc, Gérard. Women and men - growing old working in an unequal world. In: HESAMAG, , no.10, p. 6-11 (autumn-winter 2014)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/153894