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Screw retirement. More women are working into their 60s and 70s than ever before.

Compared to only 15 percent back in the ’80s, nearly 30 percent of women are working into their late 60s. And 18 percent are working into their 70s, up from only eight percent, according to analyses by two Harvard economists.

But what’s really great is the reason they’re staying in the workforce – they’re just “having way too much fun” to retire.

New analyses show women working longer because they're having 'too much fun' to retire, Entity reports.

New analyses show women working longer because they’re having ‘too much fun’ to retire. Image via 20th Century Fox/Giphy

Kay Abramowitz, a 76-year-old partner in a Portland law firm, told The New York Times, “Retirement or death is always on the horizon, but I have no plans.”

The analyses from Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz showed that these women, most of whom have a higher education and savings, have fulfilling jobs that make them want to keep working.

They’re in occupations in which they really have an identity,” Goldin reported.

Entity reports on women working longer than ever before.

Women working longer than ever before, anaylses show. Graph via The New York Times

Some of their data was also taken from a Health and Retirement study at the University of Michigan, as well as the current population survey and the survey of income and program participation at the Census Bureau. The surveys tracked women over time.

They found that people who work when they are younger are more likely to work when they are older. Women are also marrying and having children later. So if they do take breaks to care for their children, they are more likely to return to the workforce later and continue to work past retirement age.

Joy is a key factor here, though. The analyses found that women who enjoyed their careers early in life were employed longer, regardless of education or earnings.

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For example, Helen Young Hayes managed $50 billion in investments at a mutual fund in Denver before leaving the workforce to care for her five children.

She told The New York Times that when she returned to the workforce 10 years later, she felt her experience earlier in life gave her “the confidence to realize there were no limits” to her career.

Young Hayes, 54, added, “I just have too much energy and too much intensity to not be engaged.”

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