Women's pensions one-fifth lower than men's pensions – the difference diminished only a little

women and men in the pension differences and differences in the factors affecting the talking the again. Social welfare and the ministry of health commissioned by the according to a recent report between women and men, pension gaps are still significant, and EU-countries average.

according to the Report, women's pensions are on average one-fifth lower than men's pensions. The gender pension gap has narrowed over the last two decades, albeit slowly. The european scale of women and men in Finland have a considerable size.

Women and men, average employment rates, career length or the retirement transition is not today a great difference. Instead ansioero is internationally significant.

the pension reform does not affect the

the authors of the Report according to the gender ansioero plays a key role in the gender pension-get rid of. Family free of the uneven distribution between women and men, as well as particularly long the home care allowance period, you increase the contribute to the earnings and pension gaps.

Although the family ellis approach often causes significant interruption in women's career, women's employment will return to it after a good level. Finland is the only country in Europe where sixty years of women's employment is even higher than the same aged men.

the Report reminded that the Finnish pension system the rules are the same for women and men. Recent pension reforms have not been evaluated substantially affected the gender pension-get rid of.

in the Year 2085 for women the median pension is estimated to be increasing by 15 percentage points lower than that of men. Labour market and earnings changes in both the earnings-related pension system reforms, the effects will be visible only after years or even decades away.

the People and guarantee the retirement is for women still more central role, because they get them more often and, therefore, also their level changes concern, in particular women.

the EU is concerned about the

the European, the adequacy of pensions and wage equality speech gender pension gap has been given increasingly attention. The european union has presented concerns of older women's poverty.

the Gender pension gap the review is relevant also in Finland. The report points out that older women's poverty risk is more than double compared to men. Pension time is a long period of time throughout the life cycle, and pension are pensioners the main, often the only, source of income.

low Income is strongly gender-based phenomenon, specifically in the older age groups. The gender pension gap is a question of equality but also the livelihood and social justice.

the Individual's livelihood from the perspective of pension-a difference of meaning is emphasized more than previously, when live longer and retirement is celebrated a still longer time. Retirement is now a significant period; on average, about a quarter live is being retired.

the Report has been implemented as part of the Gender pension gap project, which is two years (2018-2020 ) of the European union co-financed project. The aim is to stimulate discussion of women's and men's pension gap, and to increase knowledge of the pension-the reasons for the differences.

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