Women the biggest losers in planned pension reforms

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Friday 24 September 2010

Women the biggest losers in planned pension reforms

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MLF (Mouvement des libération des femmes) members gather in Paris to celebrate the movement's 40th anniversary, 26 August 2010

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By Alison Hird

Women are currently far more likely than men to have to work until 65 to be able to retire on a full pension. If the pension reform bill is passed in the Senate in October, they will have to work until 67. The bill highlights, and some say aggravates, discrimination against women.