Wednesday 14 March 2018

Sources and References for our Open Letter on Pensions and Equality


Sources Cited in the Open Letter

‘Women to be hardest hit by proposed university pension scheme changes’
Martin Heneghan, Jo Grady and Liam Foster, 2018

‘Old Age Poverty in OECD countries and the Issue of Gender Pension Gaps’
2015 CESifo Group briefing paper

‘Poverty in Later Life: The Facts’
2017 Age UK briefing paper

‘Health Expectancies in the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland’
Office for National Statistics dataset

‘Closing the Pensions Gap: Understanding Women’s Attitudes to Pensions Savings’
2016 Fawcett Society report (Executive Summary and Key Findings)
(See also: Foster, L., & Heneghan, M. (2017). Pensions planning in the UK: A gendered challenge. Critical Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317726639)

Universities UK 2017 Annual Report and consolidated financial statements

Additional Resources

Ghilarducci, T. (2008). When I'm sixty-four: The plot against pensions and the plan to save them. Princeton University Press. See also: http://teresaghilarducci.org

Grady, J., (2015) Gendering Pensions: Making Women Visible Gender Work and Organization 22(5): 445–458.

Foster, L. (2010) Towards a new political economy of pensions? The implications for women Critical Social Policy 30(1): 27 – 47

Gardiner, J., Robinson, A.M., and Fakhfakh, F. Exploring the private pension gender gap and occupation in later working life. Work, Employment and Society 30(4): 687 – 707.

Strauss, K. (2014) 'Accessing pension resources: the right to equality inside and out of the labour market’. International Journal of Law in Context 10(04): 522-537

Strauss, K. (2009) ‘Gender, Risk and Occupational Pensions’, In Clark, Gordon L., Dixon, Adam and Monk, Ashby H. (eds), Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 258–279

Vlachantoni, A. (2012) Financial inequality and gender in older people. Maturitas 72(2): 104 – 107.



(Thanks to Siobhan McGrath for collating the first version of this list)

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