
Why are so many women shocked by equal retirement age?
Just as some people can remember where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot, I can still recall where I was when I heard that the state pension age for women was to rise from 60 to 65, incrementally between 2010 and 2020. The year was 1993 and I was standing in the kitchen of my first-ever house, listening to the one o’clock news on Radio 4. The change was then widely debated and incorporated into the Pensions Act 1995. More recently, the move to a retirement age of 65 for women has been speeded up, but only slightly so that it will now be in
