Judgment, 28 January 1987.
The Constitutional Court held that paying pensions from public funds to women at age 60 and to men at age 65 did not constitute sex discrimination and violate equality provisions of the Constitution.  It ruled that, at the time that the law on pensions was enacted, social considerations such as the double burden of women in caring for their family and working justified the difference in wages, and that now the different age is permissible as providing compensation for previous disadvantages.
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