Disparity in pension wealth grows with women's qualifications

Women around the world retire with a quarter less wealth than men, and the gap widens for the most highly skilled jobs, according to a study published by Willis Towers Watson.

While, on average, women accumulate 74 percent of men's pension capital worldwide, this figure is only 62 percent for the most qualified positions (including managerial positions). The study was conducted in 39 countries. The largest disadvantage gap for women (60 percent) is in Nigeria and the smallest in South Korea (90 percent).

In contrast, the European average in the survey was 77 percent. Against this background, Poland comes out not very impressively. In our country, women accumulate only 73 percent of men's wealth, which puts us in 12th place out of the 14 European countries surveyed. We are only ahead of the UK and the Netherlands.

(WBJ)