ABSTRACT
Research has shown that age and gender are closely connected and cannot be separated from each other (Fineman, 2011; Halford et al., 2015; Krekula, 2007; Lykke, 2010; Krekula et al., 2013; Riach et al., 2015). Neither age nor gender is a fixed category but is constructed in complex circuits of societal and organizational action (Pritchard & Whiting, 2015). These actions can be of different types, both material and economic, such as a retirement pension system constructed on biological age and sex, or non-material and non-economic, for example, expectations and identity of an individual (Kautonen et al., 2010, 2011). These material and non-material dimensions are connected, but the categories, subcategories and boundaries are not fixed, and their social and political meanings can vary and be continually challenged and restructured (Yuval-Davis, 2006).
