00:00Gender equality is improving in the EU, but the pension gap persists.
00:08Despite significant progress in women's economic and political decision-making,
00:14full gender equality in the EU is said to still be at least 50 years away.
00:19One area that still needs improvement is pensions.
00:22New figures from Eurostat show that the average pension for women aged 65 or above
00:28in the EU was 25% lower than that for men in 2024.
00:33When broken down by country, Malta had the largest pension gender gap,
00:38with women receiving around 40% less than men on average.
00:42It was followed by the Netherlands and Austria.
00:44On the flip side, the smallest gaps were seen in Estonia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
00:51Significantly better, but there's still clearly progress to be made.
00:54It's a similar story even when we look at the median pensions.
00:59Looking at each country's median, Luxembourg had the highest gap, then Spain and the Netherlands.
01:05Down at the other end, Estonia actually registered a minus 0.3% gap,
01:11showing that women's median pension was actually a little bit higher than men's.
01:15Nevertheless, women aged 65 or older faced a higher risk of poverty than men in 22 EU countries,
01:22according to Eurostat.
01:23The five countries where this was the opposite were Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Slovenia.
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