Women continue to retire with significantly less pension income than men.
Our research shows the gender pension gap stands at 32.9%, leaving many women facing financial disadvantage later in life, when there is little opportunity to make up the difference.
Driven by caring responsibilities, lower lifetime earnings, and inequalities within the pensions system itself, the gap remains largely ignored by government.
Prospect is calling for urgent action to measure, monitor and tackle the gender pension gap, ensuring women can look forward to a more secure retirement.

Blog
Calvin Allen · 28 August 2020
Prospect has been working with a coalition of unions, tech specialists and researchers to…
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News
27 August 2020
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the arts and recreation…
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Bectu member · 27 August 2020
“Did no-one look around and stop and ask: ‘why are we so white?’”
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News
24 August 2020
Major broadcasters and TV industry bodies have signed up to take part in historic discussions…
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Andrew Pakes · 21 August 2020
The fiasco around the calculation of A-level results earlier this month clearly has huge…
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21 August 2020
As the head of Bectu, the arts and entertainment trade union, I have been in the privileged…
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Emily Walls, self-employed freelance technical stage manager · 20 August 2020
On 28th July, the Arts Council CEO Derren Henley announced additional resources to fund arts…
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News
19 August 2020
Over 120 organisations including Bectu have signed a letter to the Treasury calling on the…
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John Rogers, live events lighting designer/technician · 14 August 2020
The devil makes work for idle hands, or so the saying goes. In the small hours of a Sunday…
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News
13 August 2020
The news that the arts, entertainment and recreation industry has seen the largest quarterly…
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