Gender and Social Security Reform: What's Fair for Women?

by Neil Gilbert

Book Overview

Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas. Proposed reforms often have different implications for men and women. At the same time, traditional family and gender roles are changing with the decline in fertility rates and the rapid rise in women's participation in the paid labor force.

While trying to adapt social security systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412805228
• ISBN13: 9781412805223
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"