Did you know that a woman in the UK has to work an extra 19 years on average to get the same pension outcome as a man? Every time I quote that statistic people are shocked, yet this issue has been documented for years. The real shock is that progress has barely shifted.
The uncomfortable truth is that the gender pension gap is caused to some degree by parenthood, which carries a hidden financial penalty that beds in within a few short years and can take decades to undo.
