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Unmarried Women No Longer Pay a Financial Penalty in Retirement
Younger female boomers are doing better than their predecessors, but there’s a catch.
The other part of this story? Older men’s frozen finances.
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On the retirement front, a new study has some good news for unmarried women: They’re no longer falling behind their married peers. Still, it’s tough to celebrate equality when it seems to be driven mostly by the falling fortunes of men.
Studies about how prepared US workers overall are for retirement tend to be incredibly depressing — and even more so when they focus on women, who say in staggering percentages that they’re worried about running out of money. Much of this has to do with women earning less, taking more time out of the workforce and living longer than men.