THE National Pensioners Convention has called for an end to the gender gap in pensions and pay to ensure female workers don’t fall into the same poverty trap as their grandmothers.

More than one in five women pensioners in the UK are estimated to live in poverty compared to one in six men.

Research by the Pension Policy Institute found that  on average, women retire with pension savings of £69,000, compared with £205,000 for men.