Price Christine A, Nesteruk Olena
Family and Child Studies Department, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA.
J Women Aging. 2010;22(2):136-49. doi: 10.1080/08952841003719240.
Through in-depth interviews with 40 retired women diverse in age, marital status, ethnicity, income, and occupational background, we explored how women experience retirement. Following our analysis, we identified five retirement pathways: family-focused, service-focused, recreation-focused, employment-focused, and disenchanted retirements. These pathways represent dominant activities and interests at the time the women were interviewed and challenge the cultural portrayal of retirement as an unvarying life stage. The participants' narratives provide a glimpse into the pathways retired women create by revealing the complexity of later life and the changing nature of retirement.
通过对40名年龄、婚姻状况、种族、收入和职业背景各异的退休女性进行深入访谈，我们探究了女性如何体验退休生活。经过分析，我们确定了五条退休路径：以家庭为中心、以服务为中心、以娱乐为中心、以就业为中心和幻想破灭型退休。这些路径代表了受访女性当时的主要活动和兴趣，挑战了将退休视为一成不变的生活阶段的文化描述。参与者的叙述揭示了晚年生活的复杂性和退休性质的变化，让我们得以一窥退休女性所创造的退休路径。
