MorningStar: Retirement: The Other Economic Gender Gap
There are some hopeful signs that the gender gap in retirement security could shrink in the years ahead. Women are working longer, and their participation rate in workplace retirement plans is rising. And more women are boosting their Social Security income by delaying their claim of benefits.
CNBC: Retirement May Be Dicey for Single Women
About 40 percent of unmarried women have saved less than $1,000, according to the 2016 Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefits Research Institute and Greenwald and Associates. That's significantly higher than the 34 percent of unmarried men, 22 percent of married women, and 12 percent of married men with a similar, meager amount in savings and investments.
Money: The Huge Retirement Penalty for Being a Mom
Women raising kids face a higher degree of difficulty in putting money away, and they also face steeper costs in retirement. So it’s no surprise that nearly half of women raising kids are “not too confident” or “not at all confident” about retirement.
How Society Pays When Women’s Work Is Unpaid
In countries around the world, the ways in which men and women spend their time are unbalanced. Men spend more time working for money. Women do the bulk of the unpaid work — cooking, cleaning and child care.
Gender Pay Gap Can Haunt Women Even in Retirement
The gender pay gap is a hot topic in the presidential campaign, and President Barack Obama has been hammering on it, too. Women who work full-time, year-round, made just 79 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts in 2014, U.S. Census Bureau data shows.
Meet the Next Elizabeth Warrens Now Running for Congress
Mass movements start in the streets, marching to the steps of city halls and statehouses to speak truth to power. They open up debates, forcing elected officials to think anew and respond to demands for racial and economic justice, immigrant rights, fair elections, real democracy, and peace. Eventually, however, those who are making the demands realize that they can and should be setting the policies. That sentiment is expressed in presidential politics by Bernie Sanders’s talk of a transformative political revolution. And in congressional districts across the country, some of America’s most ardent activists and deepest thinkers are entering the fray.