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The Gender of “Active Aging”: From the Principle of Equal Treatment to the Multiplication of Contradictory Imperatives

Abstract

This article analyses the impact of “active aging” policies on gender (in)equality during the second half of working life. Through the inclusion of an intermediary level of analysis, it questions the potential hiatus between the gender norms that are promoted through public policies and those that underpin the action of human resource departments within large companies. On the basis of empirical fieldwork, it reveals the dissonance in “doing gender” between different institutional settings, that induces multiple contradictory imperatives on aging female workers in Switzerland.

Keywords

  • equality
  • age management
  • gender
  • seniors
  • active ageing

Authors

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Prof. Nicky Le Feuvre

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Prof. Morgane Kuehni

Dre. Magdalena Rosende

Dre. Céline Schoeni

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Publication information

Institutions:

Université de Lausanne

Authors:

Nicky Le Feuvre, Morgane Kuehni, Magdalena Rosende, Céline Schoeni

Editors:

Brigitte Liebig, René Levy, Birgit Sauer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Publisher:

Swiss Sociological Association and Seismo Press, Swiss Journal of Sociology, Vol. 40, Issue 2, July 2014, «Gender Equality Policies in Switzerland», pp. 307-324

Languages:

French

Media Type:

PDF

City:

Zurich

Year:

2014

Themes:

Gender Studies

Disciplines:

Social Sciences

Research labels:

Work – carrer – professions
Age
Norms – normativity

Subjects:

Gender Studies, Sociology

Genres:

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