Law 100 of the general pension system establishes that a male citizen must comply with the 1,300 work weeks and have fulfilled 62 years to be able to access the right to a pension. Contrary to women, who must contribute the same weeks, but up to the 57 years
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In other words, the male population has with five years more than the female population to contribute exactly the same number of weeks. This undoubtedly generates inequity in the conditions of access to the old-age pension for the citizens of the country and becomes another factor to study. equal conditions in the labor field.
Household chores see their employment relationships constantly interrupted for months and years and, finally, their contribution to the pension system
Thus, since July 2022, the Constitutional Court is discussing a lawsuit that the High Court admitted to debate whether women can retire with 1,000 weeks of contributions and not with 1,300, as it is now.
According to the text, apart from article 9 of Law 797 of 2003 they impose a disproportionate and unfair burden on womenthat they must do the same weeks as men but in five years less.
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“The current law does not take into account that women, due to their important role as mothers, including birth, childcare and houseworktheir employment relationships are constantly interrupted for months and years, and finallyYour contribution to the pension system is lower, which translates into lower and inequitable pensions for women compared to men,” the lawsuit states.
It is important to highlight that the pension age in Colombia and in other regions of the continent is lower due to a “historic debt” that has with the female population and their role in domestic work spaces and child rearing. However, in the Colombian case, this concept falls short as two minimum pension conditions prevail: weeks quoted and age.
In addition, men have more participation in work spacesbeing 76.4% of the male population against 51.4% of the female, according to data from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of November 2022.
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