Women Against State Pension Inequality

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/women-against-state-pension-inequality

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the movement foundation year?2015
2. What is the primary legislative context?Pensions Acts of 1995 and subsequent legislation
3. What is the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) movement?The WASPI movement is a group of women who are working together to talk about problems with how the state pension age was changed. They want to make sure everyone is treated fairly.
4. Why did the WASPI movement start in 2015?It started in 2015 because laws were changing the age when women could get their pension to be the same as men’s, and many women felt the changes were too fast and not well explained.

State Pension Age Equalization: The process of making the age at which men and women can claim their state pension the same.
Grassroots Activism: Political action or movement originating from ordinary people rather than established leaders.
Intergenerational Equity: Fairness in the distribution of resources and opportunities between different generations.
Social Contract: The implicit agreement among members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.