Something happened to a generation of women that doesn't get talked about properly.
They planned. They saved. They did everything they were told to do. They built a retirement around a date they'd been given and organised their entire lives accordingly.
Then the date changed. Not by a little. By years. And they were told with very little notice and even less apology to simply adjust.
The government called it necessary. The courts called it lawful. The women it affected called it something else entirely.
What strikes me most isn't even the money — though the money matters enormously. It's the assumption underneath the decision. The assumption that this group of women would simply absorb it. Quietly. Without too much fuss. Because that's what they'd always done.
They absorbed rationing. They absorbed being passed over. They absorbed decades of doing twice the work for less recognition. So why not absorb this too.
Except something has shifted. These women are not absorbing it quietly anymore. And they shouldn't have to.
The strength it takes to plan a life, build a life, and then rebuild it again when someone moves the goalposts — that's not nothing. That's extraordinary. And it deserves to be named as such.
If this affected you or someone you know I'd love to hear how you handled it. Not just the anger. The actual handling of it. Because I think there's more strength in this group than anyone in Westminster has ever properly understood.
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