Women face special challenges when planning for retirement. Because their careers are often interrupted to care for children or elderly parents, women may spend less time in the workforce and earn less money than men in the same age group. As a result, their retirement plan balances, Social Security benefits, and pension benefits are often lower. In addition to earning less, women generally live longer than men, and they face having to stretch limited retirement savings and benefits over many years.
To meet these financial challenges, you’ll need to make retirement planning a priority. Learn how now
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Filed Under: Retirement - Getting Ready, Retirement Dreams?
February 15th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Last week when women gathered to Embrace the Future, we claimed three financial successes that we wrote “from” the future six months from now that supports progress toward our retirement dreams. Hurray!!