Abstract
This article discusses the link between familisation measures (to lower the negative consequences of participating in the family as a care-provider) and defamilisation measures (to reduce individual responsibility for providing care in the family), and pensions for women. To enhance women’s chance of having a secure retirement life, it makes two suggestions: government should provide defamilisation measures to assist women to accumulate pension income through work-based pension measures; and government should provide familisation measures extensively as an alternative to these measures. It also demonstrates how the case examples of Hong Kong and Taiwan provide support to these two suggestions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 161-176 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Aging and Social Policy |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 11 Jan 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2021 |
User-Defined Keywords
- defamilisation measures
- Familisation measures
- pensions
- women