A-Infos (en) France, UCL - Pensions, The fight against pension reform is a feminist fight (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Today in France, women receive a retirement pension that is 40% lower than that 
of men. The cause? Women are often confined to less well-paid, more precarious 
salaried work and choppy careers. The reform project will worsen these 
inequalities, but all together, working women can win. ---- Double day - 
half-retirement ---- If women receive retirement pensions almost half those of 
men, this is primarily due to pay inequalities: in 2022 again, the average salary 
of women is lower by 22%). But who says low wages, says low contributions, then 
low pensions. ---- In addition to being paid less, women are more forced into 
choppy careers because they do most of the domestic work. It's a double working 
day: at work and at home. This makes our careers more precarious: it is mostly 
mothers who adjust to births (reduction in working time, interruption of 
activity) and then experience difficulties in finding an equivalent position or 
even a position at all. And the government would like to stop counting the 
quarters for maternity in the annuities!

Exhaustion or misery
Today, twice as many women as men are forced to work until the age of 67 to leave 
without a discount! With the transition to 43 annuities from 2027, until what age 
will our exhausted bodies have to enrich the bosses, so that we can leave with a 
decent retirement?

This is all the more intolerable since precariousness prevents us, at any age, 
from fleeing violent spouses. Retired women are sadly no exception, they 
represent 21% of feminicides. Increasingly miserable pensions will only make the 
situation worse.


Behind the ads, the scam
The government adorns its reform with supposedly progressive bluster measures for 
women: this is a lie. The taking into account of parental leave is limited to 4 
trimesters and only intervenes for long careers, (if one worked 5 trimesters 
before 20 years). Too bad for those who do not have a full career or who have had 
longer parental leaves.

The minimum pension of Ero 1,200 gross, below the poverty line, has existed since 
2003 without being applied. It only concerns long careers fully paid at minimum 
wage, without interruption or part-time work. According to a 2018 report, this 
would concern... 48 people out of 2.5 million. An announcement that will not 
change anything, especially not for women!

Our strength: we are essential
The health crisis has shown that women work overwhelmingly in sectors that are 
essential for society to simply function. This shows as much the absurdity and 
injustice of wage and pension inequalities as the effectiveness of the balance of 
power that we can impose by building the strike.

We want equality!
Equal pay, which would fill the pension funds with 7 billion euros.
Taking into account hardship, essential in feminized sectors (nurses have an 
average life expectancy of 7 years less)
The taking into account of all parental leave and quarters for maternity in the 
calculation of the pension, as recognition of the free work of women.
Retirement at age 60, without annuity conditions.
When women stand up, the people move forward!

All on strike today for our pensions, March 8 for total equality!

Libertarian Communist Union, January 26, 2023

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?La-lutte-contre-la-reforme-des-retraites-est-une-lutte-feministe
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