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100			_9410 _aSharam, Andrea
245			_aThe voices of mid-life women facing housing insecurity
260			_bSwinburne Institute for Social Research, _cJune 2015.
300			_a28 pages
500			_aKEYWORDS: Women, homelessness, boarding houses,
520			_aSingle, older women in the State of Victoria, Australia have emerged as a group experiencing housing insecurity and being highly vulnerable to homelessness in their old age. One of the most surprising aspects of this trend is the propensity for these women to be tertiary educated. Focus groups reveal education as a significant means by which these women improved their economic positions, although most had entered female dominated, hence poorer paying industries. However, in most cases their gains came too late in their lives and/or have been undermined by labour market flexibility that has resulted in precarious employment with retrenchments, casualisation, and reductions in hours of work a common experience.
650		0	_aOlder Residents _zAustralia _9493
856			_uhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/280245079_Voices_of_midlife_women_facing_housing_insecurity _yView item on publishers website
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