Women, big losers of the new pension reform?
It would seem that is the case.
The French government announced measures for women, with revaluation of the smallest pensions - often those of women -, the taking into account of the quarters of parental leave in the annuities necessary for a full pension, or the integration of interruptions carers – those people who take leave to care for sick or disabled loved ones who are, again in most cases, women.
But the reform represents above all a setback for the rights of women who have had children, i.e. nine out of ten women in France, because it postpones by a few months more than men the moment when they will be able to leave the world of work to reach full board.
The Minister for Relations with Parliament Franck Riester does not disagree that women will be "a little penalized".
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Our guests Elena Bassoli and Fabienne El Khoury believe that before reforming the pension system, we must first reform the labor market and make it more egalitarian.
Women are still 80% those who occupy part-time jobs, their salaries are still 22% lower than those of men and they receive the smallest pensions: all points on which we must focus on priority, explain- they.
Although no country has a pension system that favors women, some of France's neighbors do better, such as Estonia, where the average difference between men's and women's pensions is the lowest, at only 3.3%, followed by Slovakia (7.6%) and Denmark (10.6%), according to the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index.
Slovakia also stands out by imposing an identical starting age for men and women, alongside Sweden, Norway and Iceland.
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Finally, in Egypt, they live from their passion: music.
Women DJs are still rare there, but they make bodies and lines move.
Yas Meen Selectress has thus made a name for itself on the Egyptian electro scene.
In the nightclubs of Cairo, she is still an exception.
But other women are also digging their furrow, with a very different audience.
Dalia Hassan officiates for private ceremonies or weddings, exclusively for women.
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