Over 80 researchers and policymakers registered for the inaugural CEPAR Online Symposium on Mature Workers in Organisations on 26 May. Guest speaker Professor Philip Taylor of the Federation University presented on older women’s experiences of work and the factors affecting their labour market engagement, drawing from findings of the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded ‘Retiring women’ study.
Philip Taylor has over 30 years of experience as a researcher, policy writer, and advisor on workforce ageing. He has produced over 160 outputs including books, journal articles, book chapters, reports, and commentaries on issues including individual orientations to work and retirement, employer behaviour towards older workers, and developments in public policy aimed at prolonging working life.
In his presentation, he provided evidence from quantitative surveys of Australian older working women to challenge myths concerning their employment and to demonstrate the complexity of their engagement with the labour market.
Professor Taylor concluded that most women like their jobs, viewing their working environments as benign, but also emphasised the findings highlighted the problematical nature of devising effective public policy and advocacy for ‘older workers’.
The video recording is available below.
The CEPAR Online Symposium Series is hosted by the Organisations and the Mature Workforce research stream based at the Centre's Curtin University and University of Sydney nodes.
The next Online Symposium on Mature Workers in Organisations will be held on 30 June 2021. Further details are available here.
Recording