Older women in rural areas ‘not motivated by money to work’

Mid-life women living in rural Ireland are not motivated to continue working into older age by money, a survey found (PA)

Women in their mid-40s to 60s living in rural Ireland are not motivated to continue working into older age by money, but instead by their life purpose and for social connection, a study had found.

The qualitative study of 25 women aged 45 to 65 in Connemara, Co Galway, was carried out by NUI Galway academic Dr Alison Herbert to look at the financial reasons to work later in life by researching and analysing the women’s experiences.