Sorry, you’ve lost me now (and by the way, while I remember, what’s wrong with being a Christian?) but I suspect that’s an unhelpful, over-simplified take on reality. Again, I can’t comment on the US but if people took this on board they’d have images of women being dragged away in chains! Isn’t that slightly inaccurate and misleading? In the UK there have been injustices for both sexes e.g. men historically having to work until they’re 65 and women retiring at 60 and yet statistics show that women live longer. Where’s the fairness in that? Five years is a helluva long time especially if you’re working in a factory or driving a London bus. Men, historically, being the ones with the responsibility of providing a home and putting food on the table and yet hardly ever seeing, let alone, enjoying their families. Until recently I would hate to have been born a man.

Is it the law or only preference that men work longer? Our retirement age is sort of set at 65 (about the time one goes on Social Security and starts Medicare,) but it's not set in stone for either sex. If a man wants to work longer, that's his problem. I don't see how fairness, or unfairness, comes into it. And, at least over here, about a quarter of households have women as their major breadwinners, and that's with women making historically less. Plus, there's the recent gutting of women's reproductive rights. If women are doing better over there, just one more reason I want to move over there! *g*