‘I’m a Waspi woman, sexism has made me poorer my entire life’

Christine Hood-Wright says she wasn’t allowed to join the work pension as a woman until 25 in her first job and earned less than men throughout her working life. that she was delayed from joining her work pension scheme as a woman in her first job and was penalised in subsequent jobs by being paid less than men for doing similar roles due to the gender pay gap.

“I only found out 18 months before my supposed retirement that I had to work an extra six years,” she said. “It was colleagues at work who encouraged me to look online with them to check our pension age. I couldn’t believe it when I found out I had to wait until 66 for the state pension. She then worked as a courts administrator for 26 years and only retired two years ago at the age of 66 when she finally received her state pension.

Tragedy affected Ms Hood-Wright’s life in 2003 as her first husband Tony Hood died of cancer at the age of 53. Ms Hood-Wright married her second husband Tom Wright in 2011 and between them, the couple have three children and six grandchildren.for two years, she feels angry and frustrated at feeling forced to work an extra six years and is joining other Waspi women in campaigning for justice and fair compensation.

“Why were the women brought up to meet the men?” she asked. “I agree that the state pension age should be the same, but why did we have to work an extra six years while the men’s state pension age stayed the same? I can’t understand why women had to bear the brunt.

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