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The yawning gap in the pension provision between men and women has been exposed.

The average Irish woman’s pension pot is a “staggering” 40pc less than men’s.

An average pension pot for a man in Ireland is €102,000. But it is only €60,500 for women, according to research by the Irish-owned network of financial advisers Ask Acorn.

This means that Irish women have on average saved around €41,400 less into their pension pots than men, indicating a gender pension gap of 40pc, according to a survey conducted by iReach for Ask Acorn.

Three out of 10 Irish adults have no retirement savings, a situation that is supposed to be addressed with the promised launch of the My Future Fund auto-enrolment pension fund from the start of next year.

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