Tag: single women

Lower half of a bride and groom holding hands

Women today will spend about half of their adult years on their own.  They are more likely not to marry; when they do marry, they do it later; and they are more likely to divorce.  Therefore, it is important to understand the differential risk women approaching retirement face based on their marital histories A recent…

Images of growing stacking coins and Hand putting coin into glas

If the difference in men and women’s pay is a gap, then the wealth difference can only be described as a chasm. Women earn 80 cents for each dollar a man earns. But a woman has 32 cents of net worth to a man’s dollar. One byproduct of the #MeToo movement is the fresh light…