Women’s Pension Poverty: Prospects and Options for Change

Pensions policy is of particular relevance to women. Women can expect to live five years longer than men, but generally on a much lower income. Older women are over twice as likely as men to live in poverty. Yet policy-makers over the past 20 years have neither addressed the concentration of poverty among older women nor taken seriously the gender impact of their pension reforms, now and in the future. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.