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MIRANDA PRESS
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The Bonus Years: Women and Retirement
Phyllis Hall
"Told in the voices of 100 diverse women born between 1914 and 1934"
ISBN: 0-9715870-0-0 $26.00 (Cloth)
ISBN: 0-9715870-1-9 $19.00 (Soft Bound)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Phyllis Hall was a professional actress in her teens, a comedy writer in her twenties, and a programmer and systems analyst in her thirties. After a seven-year absence from the workforce, she started a career in publishing as an editor at Prentice-Hall. She became a Senior Vice President at Pergamon Press in 1983 and the Director of Publishing for the IEEE (institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in 1990. She retired in 1995. The Bonus Years is her first book.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue
1 Another Myth Debunked
2 Early Expectations
3 The Women's Movement
4 Work
5 Money
6 Relationships--Self--Friends--Family
7 Living Alone
8 Time
9 We're Doing It All
10 Doing It Our Way
11 Group Description
Laura J. Hall