Did you know that men retiring in 2017 in the United Kingdom are likely to be 45% better off than women?
For more information, see the report Women’s Economic Transition to Retirement by Sarah McKenna, on the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information website. This publication discusses how demographically-driven policy change, combined with differing lifetime incomes and employment patterns, make older women susceptible to short-term poverty risk, later life disadvantage, and an over reliance on state support.
February 2018
Did you know that men retiring in 2017 in the United Kingdom are likely to be 45% better off than women?
For more information, see the report Women’s Economic Transition to Retirement by Sarah McKenna, on the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information website. This publication discusses how demographically-driven policy change, combined with differing lifetime incomes and employment patterns, make older women susceptible to short-term poverty risk, later life disadvantage, and an over reliance on state support.
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