Women 'should work longer'

SHANGHAI: The retirement age of women should be extended as a solution to this city's shrinking supply of labor and the rapidly aging population, a demographics expert has said.

Gui Shixun, vice-director of the Shanghai Research Center on Aging, said by 2020 men and women should be allowed to retire at age 60.

Currently, women working for government institutions and companies are required to retire at age 55 and men at 60. Women blue-collar workers must retire at 50 and men at 55.