abstract: 'This paper examines how defamilization and familization measures can

  affect women''s capacity to accumulate pension income and their

  subsequent standard of living after retirement. Firstly, it highlights

  the concepts of defamilization and familization and discusses the

  potential of these measures in assisting women to save pension income

  through the commodification and decommodification of labor. Secondly, it

  examines the major pension policies and examples of defamilization and

  familization measures in Taiwan. It shows how the current limited

  provision of such measures could create double jeopardy for women,

  affecting access to paid employment or resources to enable women who

  wish to undertake caring responsibilities to do so, ultimately impacting

  their capacity to accumulate pension income. Thirdly, it suggests ways

  to strengthen defamilization and familization measures in order to

  enable women to accumulate sufficient retirement income on the basis of

  three preconditions: policy attention to the reciprocal relationship

  between familization/defamilization measures and pension schemes for

  women; a recognition of differences between women in their preferred

  strategies to accumulate pension income; and an emphasis on a life

  course perspective to understand the double jeopardies faced by women in

  saving for retirement.'
affiliation: 'Chau, RCM (Corresponding Author), Univ Sheffield, Dept Sociol Studies,
  Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England.

  Chau, Ruby C. M.; Foster, Liam, Univ Sheffield, Dept Sociol Studies, Sheffield,
  S Yorkshire, England.

  Yu, Sam W. K., Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Dept Social Work, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong,
  Peoples R China.

  Yu, Yuk Pun, Yan Oi Tong Community Ctr, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.'
author: Chau, Ruby C. M. and Foster, Liam and Yu, Sam W. K. and Yu, Yuk Pun
author-email: c.chau@sheffield.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Chau
  given: Ruby C. M.
- family: Foster
  given: Liam
- family: Yu
  given: Sam W. K.
- family: Yu
  given: Yuk Pun
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/aswp.12118
eissn: 1753-1411
files: []
issn: 1753-1403
journal: ASIAN SOCIAL WORK AND POLICY REVIEW
keywords: 'defamilization; familization; life course approach; pension income;

  Taiwan; women'
keywords-plus: SOCIAL-POLICY; GENDER; DEFAMILISATION; PATTERNS; REGIMES; INEQUALITY
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '65'
orcid-numbers: Chau, Chui Man/0000-0003-3118-4669
pages: 116-123
papis_id: fd8ebec5dd385706c16294e985c649aa
ref: Chau2017defamilizationfamili
times-cited: '3'
title: Defamilization/familization measures and women's pension incomeThe case of
  Taiwan
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000403322900002
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '11'
web-of-science-categories: Social Work
year: '2017'