ABSTRACT
A consistent finding on women's retirement is that they, more so than men, consider family circumstances — specifically caring responsibilities — when timing their retirement. In that sense, mandatory retirement is often imposed not by an employer, but rather by the circumstances of women. The failure of the traditional approach to retirement to consider the multidimensional nature of women's retirement, culturally and personally, has been pointed out by feminist scholars (Price 1998; Richardson 1999). Richardson argues that the multiple roles of women — as wives, mothers and adult daughters, as well as workers — must be recognized in order to understand women's retirement.
