The Future of Gender Equal Pensions
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Why are women retiring into poverty, and what will it take to change that?
On 19 May 2026, the Women’s Budget Group is convening an international conversation on one of the most overlooked injustices in economic policy: the structural gender pensions gap. Pension systems were not built with women in mind, and millions are paying the price in old age. The webinar will be an opportunity to discuss the nature of the pensions system and the gender pensions gap as well as future actions we can take together for gender equal pension systems.
Speakers
- Dr. Daniella Jenkins (WBG, UK)
- Martha Susana Jaimes, Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) – Senior Research Economist | United States
- Farah Al Shami (Arab Reform Initiative, SWANA region)
- Prof. Elena Moore (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Our speakers will bring global evidence and lived regional reality to bear on a problem that demands systemic solutions. Together, they will unpack how unpaid care work, part-time labour, and androcentric pension systems design assumptions have been baked into pension systems across the world, and what governments, employers, and civil society can do to change that.
This is not just a conversation about women’s finances. It is a conversation about the kind of societies we want to build.