An emerging consensus sees British pension policy as unravelling. Yet the gender impact of expanding private pension provision and relying increasingly on means-testing has been largely overlooked.This book examines key issues such as: how pension choices over the lifecourse are structured by gender, class and ethnicity;the impact of changing patterns of partnership and parenthood on pension building;the distributional impact of privatising pensions;questions about individualisation of rights, survivor benefits, a citizen's pension and means-testing;the EU dimension - comparing alternative...

An emerging consensus sees British pension policy as unravelling. Yet the gender impact of expanding private pension provision and relying increasingly on means-testing has been largely overlooked.This book examines key issues such as: how pension choices over the lifecourse are structured by gender, class and ethnicity;the impact of changing patterns of partnership and parenthood on pension building;the distributional impact of privatising pensions;questions about individualisation of rights, survivor benefits, a citizen's pension and means-testing;the EU dimension - comparing alternative...