Research shows that women get poor pensions.
Maybe enough attention paid to this will persuade people to think more seriously about dealing with poverty and less about means testing. On the other hand this usually means more nonsense about discrimination. Women do not monetise their labour ery well, live longer and retire earlier than men. Since most pension arrangements depend upon all three for good reasons, most pension schemes do not serve women very well. Rather than pretend that schemes do and use them to tax male pensioners at a random rate, there should be an open discussion about where the money ought ot come from.
This discussion ought to include the level where redress ought to be made, between state minima and corporate pensions, changing behaviour before retirement and who needs to pay it.
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