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.

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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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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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13 August 2020
The news that the arts, entertainment and recreation industry has seen the largest quarterly…
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12 August 2020
Bectu has written to culture secretary Oliver Dowden outlining challenges theatres and the…
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12 August 2020
Lukas, a Traffic Officer for Highways England, joined Prospect when he started training for his…
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10 August 2020
Damian Collins MP and 22 other MPs from across the south east of England have written to…
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7 August 2020
The general secretary of Bectu’s parent union Prospect has written to Chancellor Rishi…
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