Spanish court ruling citing gender equality helps woman retire early

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spaniard has won a legal battle to include in her work record the time she spent attending a social programme for women that was created in the Franco era, enabling her to qualify for early retirement after a ruling based on gender equality.

The woman had found herself seven days short of the minimum time spent working to qualify for early retirement because she was unable to include the period spent on the programme created in 1937 to help women learn social and labour skills.