title: Gender differences in how retirees perceive factors influencing unretirement.
abstract: Returning to paid employment after retirement is occurring in many developed countries and can be expected to increase in the future. This study compared how women (n = 202) and men (n = 347) who had retired from a managerial or professional career occupation perceived factors associated with unretirement. Retired professional women perceived reasons to unretire, age-friendly human resource practices, and re-entry barriers to have greater influence on retirees' decision to unretire than retired managerial women and retired men. Both groups of retired women perceived training and development opportunities to have more influence than retired men. A major contribution of this study is the identification of pre-retirement career occupation as having an important effect on how female, but not male, retirees perceived the various factors. The findings suggest that researchers and employers need to consider the diversity that exists among retirees, not only gender differences but also differences among retired career women.
authors.affiliation: Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. mas@uwindsor.ca
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Armstrong-Stassen
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Staats
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations; D010465:Perception; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011287:Prejudice; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013192:Staff Development; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*