Women’s Experiences of Paid Work and Planning for Retirement 

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Part A: Introduction
  • Women, work, and retirement in Australia
  • Methods
• Part B: Results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
1. Paid and unpaid work
2. Retirement status
3. Intentions and expectations about retirement age
4. Sources of retirement income
5. Motivations for retirement
6. Patterns and predictors of women’s labour market attachment
• Part C: Conclusions and Future Research Directions
• References
• Appendix A: The Fourth Survey for Mid-age Women, 2004
• Appendix B: Caring and age of retirement
• Appendix C: Sources of Retirement Funding

Report to the Office for Women,
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Penny Warner-Smith, Jennifer Powers, Andrew Hampson

© Commonwealth of Australia 2008

ISBN: 978-1-921380-89-1

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Acknowledgements:
This report was prepared for the Australian Government Office for Women by the The Australian Longitudinal Study On Women's Health at the University of Newcastle and the University of Queensland.

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