Now there is a whole generation of divorced women, who find themselves in financial difficulties: they didn't build up a pension because they stayed at home, have no social rights because of messy legislation and cannot count on their husband's pension either. Widows of self-employed workers or ex-wives of civil servants come to the conclusion that, after a life of 'caring for', they now have to be taken care of themselves.
That is why Wederik De Backer and Justine Vergotte made three portraits of three women without a husband, who did not build up a full pension.
Illustration: © Anne Manteleers
