The impact study is very clear: women will be more affected than men by the increase in the retirement age, from 62 to 64 years. They will have to work an average of 7 more months compared to just 5 months for men.
For some generations, 1980 for example, we even went from single to double: women will have to leave an average of 8 months later against 4 for men. In question: those who were able to leave at full capacity after the age of 62 thanks to the quarters acquired during the birth of their children will now have to wait until they come of age, two more years to leave. Many women in this case are in this case: according to the DREES, in 2020, 123,000 women were thus able to retire from the age of 62 with all the required quarters.
Direct consequence, but this time positive: by being forced to work longer, their pensions will increase more than those of men thanks to this reform. Still according to the impact study, women will see their retirement increase between 1% and 2.2% depending on the generations in question, compared to only 0.2% to 0.9% for men.
Parental leave taken into account in certain cases
Another positive effect of the reform: Women, who are the most affected by small pensions, will be the first beneficiaries of the increase in the minimum pension. 60% of the people affected by this increase are women.
Last consolation prize finally: parental leave will now be taken into account, within the limit of 4 quarters, for those who started working before the age of 20. In this way, more women will be able to benefit from an early departure within the framework of the long-career plan. This is one of the arguments used by the Government to explain that “its reform protects women”. But beware, this will only affect an average of 2,000 women each year.
Source: BFM TV
