CHASM Annual Conference 2024

The gender wealth gap: causes, consequences and solutions

Women face multiple structural disadvantages across the life course impacting their financial security and wellbeing. The gender pay gap, inadequate recognition and compensation for care work and ‘gender blind’ private pension systems are among the key causes. Socially constructed gender norms may also serve to influence the differentiated financial behaviours and outcomes of men and women.

All of these differences accumulate and crystallise in later life, resulting in a situation where women are much more likely to have lower levels of wealth and greater financial insecurity than men. Women are also more likely to require care in later life due to longer life expectancy, on average, but have fewer resources to fund that care.

At this year’s CHASM conference, we bring together the latest research evidence, expert analyses and real-life stories to better understand the causes and consequences of this longstanding inequality, and debate what more needs to be done to achieve sustainable improvement in women’s’ financial wellbeing.

CHASM is delighted to welcome three keynote speakers to the conference.

• Professor Debora Price, Professor of Social Gerontology at The University of Manchester. 

• Faith Reynolds, Adviser to the Board at TISA

• Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance.

The conference will include two panel sessions in the afternoon session, and will start at 11am and finish at 4.30pm.

This in-person CHASM Conference will be held at Friends House, Euston, London. Places are limited.

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If you would like to book a place, please email Helen Harris – chasm@contacts.bham.ac.uk