Why are so many women shocked by equal retirement age?

Just as some people can remember where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot, I can still recall where I was when I heard that the state pension age for women was to rise from 60 to 65, incrementally between 2010 and 2020. The year was 1993 and I was standing in the kitchen of my first-ever house, listening to the one o’clock news on Radio 4. The change was then widely debated and incorporated into the Pensions Act 1995. More recently, the move to a retirement age of 65 for women has been speeded up, but only slightly so that it will now be in force two years earlier, by November 2018. That, too, was widely advertised.

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I admit that I have an unusual memory but I still fail to comprehend why so many seemingly intelligent and switched-on women can claim to have been unaware of this change until recently.