“…To start with, as regards intragenerational redistribution, most pension systems appear to favour female over male workers. This is found to be the case in the Czech Republic (Klazar and Slintáková, 2012), France (Colin et al, 1999), Germany (Börsch-Supan and Reil-Held, 2001), the Netherlands (Nelissen, 1995) and Spain (Bandrés and Cuenca, 1999). The Spanish, French, German and Dutch pension systems also seem to favour married over single contributors.…”