Abstract
Women’ retirement age is earlier than men in China, which has a negative effect on the problem-solving of aging society and the protection of women’s rights and interests. Therefore, prolonging the retirement age for women has become an important policy choice to alleviate the above problems. But are women themselves willing to delay their retirement? What factors effect women’s intention to delay their retirement? Those should be an important basis for the decision-making of a new retirement policy. This paper explores female delayed retirement intention by selecting the group of female teachers which is an important category of professional women in China. Taking 270 female teachers in Inner Mongolia of China as samples, this paper analyzes the effect of personal, occupational, and policy factors on female teachers’ delayed retirement intention. The results show that the health, children, monthly income, cumulative length of working, professional title and work units have a statistically significant impact on female teachers’ delayed retirement intention. Accordingly, this article puts forward policy implications on gender equity including eliminating the gender difference of retirement age, making flexible retirement policy and protecting women’s occupational interests.
Highlights
It has become an unavoidable fact that China has been facing entering the aging society, and “aging before getting rich”
Because this study focuses on the influencing factors of female teachers’ intention to delay retirement, the SPSS is used to test whether there is a significant correlation between those factors and the intention of delayed retirement by interactive classification and chi-square test. 5.1 Personal Factors
There is a positive correlation between cumulative length of working and delayed retirement intention, that is, the longer the occupation takes place, the more female teachers are in favor of delayed retirement
Summary
It has become an unavoidable fact that China has been facing entering the aging society, and “aging before getting rich”. Population aging leads to the important change in the labor force structure, and challenges the national old-age security system and the old-age pension cost in China. Vol 3, No 3, 2020 is reasonable or not will have an important impact on China’s response to the population aging and the change of labor force structure. It has become the focus of the academic and the practice in recent years. Women’s retirement age for women in China is 5-10 years earlier than men. The earlier retirement age for women undermines the women’ equal rights, especially economic interests, and hinders the further development of women’s career (Wu, 2009). The scientific and reasonable extension policy of retirement age for women based on their intention is bound to be of great significance to protect women’s rights and interests in all aspects and to relieve the pressure of the population aging
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