Older women more likely to be in debt than men of the same age

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www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/its-hard-im-drowning/

Not surprisingly, financial abuse and coercive control are contributing factors and one woman interviewed for the research has been told to prostitute herself.

Depressing reading. Plus picking up the kids bills when the dad feels free to walk away.

Most household general shopping falls to the mum as well, and many women don't earn as much as men either.

We also tend to have had career breaks and to have worked part-time for part of our career so less chance to save or contribute to a pension. I had 12 years working part-time.

This is why the majority of women are in prison - coercive control, financial abuse and poverty.
www.womeninprison.org.uk/research/key-facts.php

I tried to read the research paper using the link you posted but it asked me for €23
Do you have a link to a free publication of it?

I’m still paying a student loan ~15 years on... husband had a bigger loan, all paid off. They keep adding on the interest throughout maternity leave, we work at same grade but I’m part-time after kids so hardly any pension either. There are lots of hidden ways that women lose out, especially once kids come along.

Child support payment set at an unrealistically low level, effectively subsidising (usually) men have to be part of this. But so many things. By the time you get to pension age all the little and not so little ways that women are treated less well really add up. Especially if you are divorced.

It boils down to the fact that the state allows men avenues to opt out of fatherhood. It should be mandatory to support biological children - a set amount paid per child taken off benefits if the person isn’t working, and if you can’t pay / sell assets you must file bankruptcy. If the father is a dependant then their partner has to pay. Caring for children must be taken as seriously as caring for the elderly.

Perhaps the default in a split should be the children live with higher earner (so more single fathers than mothers). If this is all because of fathers not supporting their children, stop the cultural assumption that the mother is always left with the children. Make it the higher earners responsibility.

Do you have a link to a free publication of it?

I'm afraid not: journals don't offer share tokens.