Age Discrimination and Diversity: Multiple Discrimination from an Age Perspective

Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Authors......Page 10
Ageism......Page 13
Age discrimination......Page 15
Ageing populations......Page 17
Framework for diversity......Page 19
Regulation......Page 22
Bibliography......Page 25
Introduction......Page 28
The development of the concept of multiple discrimination......Page 31
Moving from identity to process......Page 41
Conclusion: towards a modified post-structuralist approach to (multiple) discrimination......Page 48
Bibliography......Page 51
Introduction......Page 53
Background......Page 54
Women and work......Page 55
Detachment from the labour market......Page 59
The impact of ageism, sexism and lookism......Page 60
Factors affecting access to opportunities......Page 61
Too young or too old?......Page 63
Ageism in work......Page 65
Sexism in work......Page 67
The impact of work detachment......Page 69
Part-time work: choice or necessity?......Page 70
To old to study?......Page 71
Conclusions......Page 73
Bibliography......Page 75
Introduction......Page 77
The extent and nature of women’s disadvantage in modern pension systems......Page 78
Pension reforms and their gender implications......Page 86
Women in the British pension system......Page 91
Women in modern pension systems: evidence of change?......Page 94
Bibliography......Page 95
Introduction......Page 101
Social class and modern analysis of social stratification......Page 102
Social class analysis and old age......Page 106
Dynamic approaches to life chances in the measurement of social class in old age......Page 107
Theoretical explanation and empirical efficiency in the measurement of social class in old age......Page 111
Social class, diversity and discrimination in old age......Page 112
Social class as material opportunity:accumulation of advantage/disadvantage and discrimination in old age......Page 113
Social class as a mechanism of differentiation......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 118
Bibliography......Page 119
Introduction......Page 123
LGB......Page 124
Transgender......Page 125
Institutionalised heterosexism......Page 126
Older LGBTs and discrimination......Page 127
Historical perspectives......Page 128
Coming out......Page 130
Peer discrimination......Page 131
Health provision......Page 132
Isolation and support......Page 134
Legislative protection......Page 136
Bibliography......Page 140
Introduction......Page 144
Gerontological theories of difference......Page 145
Adopting an intersectional approach......Page 148
Methodological approaches to intersectionality......Page 149
Health inequities, ageing and ethnicity......Page 152
An intercategorical analysis of the ‘healthy immigrant effect’ (HIE)......Page 154
An intracategorical analysis of sponsorship status, age and gender......Page 156
Conclusions......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 163
Introduction......Page 172
The association of older age and disability......Page 173
Connecting policies for disability and old age......Page 176
Non-discrimination and disability rights......Page 181
Age discrimination in disability services and entitlements......Page 185
Conclusions......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 189
9 New approaches for understanding inequalities in service use among older people......Page 195
How do we measure inequalities?......Page 196
What do we know about inequalities?......Page 202
Directions for future research......Page 205
Bibliography......Page 207
Index......Page 210