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Why the Retirement Savings Crisis is Also A Women’s Crisis

Updated On: Apr 28, 2015

Apr. 27, 2015 | RETIREMENT | washingtonpost.com … It’s not as simple as today’s answers of telling women to try harder or to change. Instead, it’s about making the investment to shift the workplace to a more inclusive, modern one. A good place to start is by fully valuing the work of women by closing the gender pay gap (which is, after all, the law of the land); this would in turn close the Social Security savings gap by a third, according to Social Security Works. Those higher earnings would fund retirement plans and pay into Social Security. Full story...