Why do women retire at fifty and men have to retire at sixty?

China's enterprise workers retirement conditions are now implemented by the "State Council on the retirement of workers, retirement of the Interim Provisions" (Guo Fa [78] No. 104) document provisions of the national statutory retirement age of enterprise workers is: men aged 60 years old, women workers aged 50 years old, women cadres aged 55 years old; engaged in underground, high altitude, high temperature, particularly heavy physical labor or other harmful to health work (hereinafter referred to as special jobs), the retirement age of 55 years of age for men and 45 years of age for women; due to illness or non-work-related disability, certified by a hospital and confirmed by the Labor Appraisal Committee of the total loss of the ability to work, the retirement age of 50 years of age for men and 45 years of age for women.

In 1978, the introduction of the male 60, female workers 50 retirement, in the country's low productivity at that time, labor intensity is very high, taking into account the physiological condition of women, the protection of women, only to decide on a different retirement age for men and women.

The difference in physical strength between men and women is relatively large, and most of the energy and physical strength of women after the age of decline significantly faster than men!