19 May 2026
SHAW team members Belinda Steffan, Jakov Jandric, Wendy Loretto and Laura Airey published a paper The long shadow of divorce: lifecourse, gender and later-life work and retirement in Ageing & Society.
Drawing on cumulative (dis)advantage over the lifecourse as a theoretical lens, the article demonstrates the ways in which short-term choices reinforce existing gendered and socio-economic (dis)advantage while instigating new pathways for (dis)advantage that have long-term implications for work and retirement.