We are delighted that a research project idea recently proposed by researchers at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania. The new project "(Not)prolonging the working life of older women: legal environment, guarantees and intentions" (VAM) will be implemented by an interdisciplinary team of researchers (led by prof. dr. Ingrida Mačernytė- Panomariovienė) in the period 2024-2027.

Taking into account the increasing life expectancy, demographic challenges of ageing and recommendations for extending the working age across the European Union, the project research team will assess the legal framework and provisions on women's working age limits in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia, and will identify good practices in the Baltic region with regard to the working lives of older women.

The results of the project will be published in a monograph by an international publishing house, and the new ideas and insights gained from the research will be published in scientific articles and presented in conferences.

The research team of the project consists of: prof. dr. Ingrida Mačernytė-Panomariovienė (project leader), prof. dr. dr. Sarmitė Mikulionienė, dr. Kristina Ambrazevičiūtė, and PhD student Aistė Leščinskaitė.

More information about the project here.