Women's Retirement:

Women's work related issues such as retirement have not traditionally interested researchers. Social research has recently produced new information on women's work and retirement. However, such work has been quantitative, focusing on measurements of attitudes, satisfaction with retirement, and economic stability. This a proach has resulted in gaps in the record which we feel may be crosed through a case study approach. Pilot data from our research on women's retirement using such an approach suggests that women's decisions regarding retirement and its process may be more complex than previously reported in areas of family health problems, retirement planning and spouse's retirement.