A feminist perspective on retirement age

Italy has unequal retirement ages for men (65) and women (60). The outlook, however, is that the female retirement age will be brought to the level of that of men, in order to avoid “reverse discrimination”. Would it really discriminate against men to have women retire earlier than them, however?
In particular, in the Italian society, women are still performing much of the housework. While not computed in GDP statistics, housework is, however, an important type of service as part of the process of maintaining and regenerating the workforce. Working women face a tough work-life balance in many countries, and especially in Italy, where they are still subject to many subtle forms of discrimination, particularly as regards career advancement. Additionally, all too often do women return from the workplace, just to be faced with additional work at home. In light of this, while they are only held to work until the age of 60, at present it seems to me as though their (shorter) working life consists of a much lower share of leisure time, compared to that of men, due to the unequal burden of housework.
In order for there to be true equality, therefore, I believe that, if we want to raise retirement age, the load of housework (in a broad sense, including the efforts to raise offspring, for instance) should be more evenly spread. This, however, is both a cultural battle, that has to be won, first of all, within the four walls of the house vis-à-vis their partners, as well as a challenge to the system as whole (and the government in particular), that will have to try and provide – on its part – an increased number of services, to relieve the pressure on working women, if it is to treat them as men when it comes to retirement age.