Retiring Women
The ‘Retiring Women’ Linkages project over three years (2009-2011) is directed towards understanding the critical interacting factors that contribute to women’s orientations towards continuing participation in the labour market and choices about when and how to retire. Important interactions between work, age and gender have been identified but there is limited evidence on older women’s labour market trajectories and experiences and how these may influence later life transitions and roles.
For the purposes of this study attention will focus on working with women aged 50 and over and ‘retired’ women from three occupational groups and sectors: Financial services, tertiary education and the emergency and state services.
Support and data will be provided by the collaborating organisations: Westpac, UniSuper and ESSSuper. The Chief Investigators are Associate Professor Libby Brooke, Business Work and Ageing Centre for Research, Swinburne University of Technology; Professor Philip Taylor, Monash University, Dr Diana Olsberg, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, the University of New South Wales; Professor Nita Cherry, Professor of Leadership in the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology; and Associate Professor Janet Gregory, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Higher Education Lilydale (FHEL), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,