These days, the Fact & Figures brochure 2019 from the Gender Equality Department of the Department of the President of the City of Basel. I started leafing through it and and ultimately realized that the differences between women and men have indeed improved, but are still high.

With regard to senior citizens, I would like to quote from the brochure:

"In 2018, 7919 pensioners in Basel-Stadt received supplementary AHV supplementary benefits, of which 62.9% were women."

Poverty and a lack of social security still seem to is still a women's issue. If you leaf through the brochure and notice that for example, the professional position (Northwestern Switzerland 2018) in a managerial role only accounts for women only accounts for 5%, but becomes a fact for 7.8% of men, or only 17.5 % women in a managerial role as opposed to 24.6% men, it is already clear where the first step of the difference lies.

When I read that it is mainly women who do care work and tend to take up poorly paid professions, i.e. earn on average 18.3% less than men for the same job profile, it makes me a little a little. No wonder, they say:

"The average pension fund retirement pension for new new entrants was around 2894 francs per month in 2017, that of women at 1619 francs."

Part-time work, divorces, family planning - these are all are decisive factors. It's no wonder that more and more people are making retirement age are making great efforts to get a job or stay in their job. to stay in their job. The economy should actually be grateful, when senior citizens play an active role. It would be a classic win-win situation. Interested people contribute their life and work experience and can thus secure their livelihood in old age.

I would actually like to call on the business community to take a look around seniors@work! The expertise on display here is unbelievable.... Simply too good not to be called upon!