Women Against State Pension Inequality: a distraction from deeper problems

Hugh Pemberton

Women Against State Pension Inequality: a distraction from deeper problems

Hugh Pemberton

Department of History (Historical Studies)

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Abstract

Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is waging an impressive campaign for ‘1950s women’ to be compensated for financial hardship arising from the rise in their state pension age (SPA) from age 60. It has the support of Labour and SNP MPs, and its message clearly influenced the House of Commons’ Work and Pensions Select Committee in their March 2016 criticism of the government’s failure fully to communicate SPA equalisation to women affected. The campaign continues to be widely and sympathetically reported.

Women born in the 1950s do face significant financial challenges as they near state pension age. Yet so do men, and so will younger women. In this sense the present domination of the debate by WASPI is a distraction from deeper and more intractable problems in the transition from work to retirement.

Original language	English
Publisher	History & Policy
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Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2017

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WASPI's is (mostly) a campaign for inequality
Pemberton, H., 11 Aug 2017, In: Political Quarterly. 88, 3, p. 510-516 7 p.
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TPR: The Thatcherite pension reforms
Davies, A. R. (Researcher), Freeman, J. (Co-Principal Investigator), Gould, T. J. (Student), Middleton, R. A. H. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Freeman, J. (Principal Investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/09/14 → 30/11/21
Project: Research

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