Does the pension reform really penalize women?

While the pension reform will be examined by the Senate on Tuesday and the impact study makes it possible to better distinguish winners and losers, the government claims to defend a reform of “social justice“. The opposition, however, denounces a text that would particularly penalize women. “It is a reform which, from start to finish, is against women’s rights“, For example dropped Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly. Even on the side of LR, where we are more conciliatory vis-à-vis the text, we are worried about the demographic issue. “Women and their motherhood, this is the blind spot of the reform“, thus denounced the senator LR Jérôme Bascher on the antenna of Public Senate.

On the government side, the spokesperson for the executive, Olivier Véran, rejects the criticism. “I do not consider that women will be penalized“, he advanced, taking over from Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who denounced a “bogus trialduring questions to the government. Yet women aresomewhat penalized by the postponement of the legal ageRetirement, recognized by himself the Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament Franck Riester. For his part, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt acknowledged that “the site that we have to improve concerns the situation of women”. So what is it really? What fate does the pension reform really reserve for women?