UK pension reforms: Is gender still an issue?

Social Policy and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-103

  Ginn, Jay ^a   Macintyre, Ken ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Unite the Union   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auto enrolment; employment; family caring; Pensions; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894373141     PISSN: 14747464     EISSN: 14753073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000504     Document Type: Article

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