Seven million female ‘baby-boomers’ are due to retire in the next few years. Two thirds of them will receive no more than 600 euros in pension and will need further welfare support – although they have always worked and are well-educated. Kristina Vaillant describes the scale of the scandal and spells out its cause: a pensions policy which does nothing to reduce the gender gap but systematically makes it worse. Successful alternatives are presented, examples being the Netherlands, Great Britain and Scandinavia, where a woman’s whole lifetime of activity is respected in the pensions calculations
