Knights, David and Odih, Pamela. 1995. `It's About Time!' The Significance of Gendered Time for Financial Services Consumption. Time & Society, 4(2), pp. 205-231. ISSN 0961-463X [Article]

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In recent years numerous financial services companies have explored the profitability of marketing specifically to women. These practices are largely informed by traditional product and service distribution methods where the target is predominantly male `heads of household'. This article provides alternative approaches to the issue of gender and its bearing on financial services consumption. We argue that women's everyday lives frequently result in gendered relations to, and perceptions of `time'. These temporal orientations are often incongruent with the predominant linear, temporal framework within which many long-term financial services products (e.g. pensions) are embedded. Insofar as financial services companies continue to subscribe to a linear model of time, reproduced through marketing discourses and embedded within their temporally oriented products, their efforts to capture the `women's market' will continue to be constrained.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X95004002003
Additional Information:	Originally presented by Pamela Odih in 1993, entitled: Knights, D., and Odih, P., (1993); Gender, Time and Financial Services Consumption, Paper Presented at the Rethinking Marketing Conference, Warwick: University of Warwick.
Keywords:	Gendered time, linear time, relational time, financial services consumption and discrimination.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 1 June 1995 Published
Item ID:	19923
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2017 11:32
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:24
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/19923

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