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As far as I know, throughout the developed world women generally live longer than men on average while also retiring earlier than them on average. In my view, the maximally cynical take on this is that most citizens share the unspoken consensus that 1. old women generally remain socially active and perform socially beneficial tasks in ways that men generally don’t (this mostly entails looking after the children of their daughter especially if she happens to be a single mom and/or divorced; plus being matchmakers for young singles in their social circle) 2. most women don’t focus on their careers as much as men do so we can’t expect the majority or even a significant minority of them to have high-status, well-paying etc. jobs and remain employable at the of 60 or so. Am I correct in this?
The effective retirement age gap between men and women is very small (~1 year) in the developed world, and in France it seems that it's actually women who retire 1 year later than men. Legally speaking it's equal between the sexes in nearly every single developed country, but when it was lower in the past for women, the most sensible explanation I read was that since the norm was single-income households and women tended to marry younger, they timed it so when the husband retired, they would both get their pension at the same time.
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