{"id":8228,"date":"2026-03-22T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:39:45","slug":"fortysomething-women-drove-surge-in-female-pension-contributions-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/22\/fortysomething-women-drove-surge-in-female-pension-contributions-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortysomething women \u2018drove surge in female pension contributions in January\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January 2026, female PensionBee customers out-contributed men for only the second time in the firm\u2019s history, with women\u2019s contributions reaching 104% of those made by their male counterparts. This surge was primarily driven by women in their 40s, who contributed 185% of what men in the same age bracket did, likely due to self-employed and freelance workers making lump-sum payments before the tax deadline. While these figures indicate growing financial engagement among middle-aged women and higher-rate taxpayers, younger and older age groups still lag behind men, reflecting a &#8220;compounding disadvantage&#8221; over time. Experts suggest that while these gains are encouraging, systemic reform is still necessary to support &#8220;invisible workers&#8221; who fall outside traditional auto-enrollment schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 26, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/money\/hm-revenue-b2927380.html\">independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, female PensionBee customers out-contributed men for only the second time in the firm\u2019s history, with women\u2019s contributions reaching 104% of those made by their male counterparts. This surge was primarily driven by women in their 40s, who contributed 185% of what men in the same age bracket did, likely due to self-employed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}