I AM puzzled at the outrage by members of the organisation 'Women Against State pension Inequality' (Gazette, February 28, 'This is simply the last straw').
When I started work in 1965, I asked my boss and subsequently a couple of other people of reasonable intelligence the question - why are men expected to work until age 65 where as women can retire at age 60?
The general response was a blank stare, a shrug of the shoulders and a simple reply 'That's just the way it is', which was hardly a satisfactory answer.
So I just got on with my working life without a whimper of protest.
We are all living longer and an alignment and gradual increase in working life seems a logical answer.
I am not a male chauvinist as this retirement age increase affects both my wife and ex-wife.
Or am I missing something?
Do women pay a lower National Insurance Stamp? I don't think so.
Women live longer as well.
Roy Hackney
Natland
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