...as one more reason we women have to complain.
Turns out we make a whole lot less money than men, even when we're doing the same work. The gap starts early, the study found, with women making 80 percent of what men make just one year out of college.
Visit this site to see what your wage gap is. Yeah, yeah, it's a politician's site, but the methodology is right there and it seems to hold up to scrutiny. Interesting.
Author Leslie Bennetts is raising hackles with her new book, "The Feminine Mistake," which examines the economic impact of women leaving their jobs to raise families.
Bennetts writes that women who choose to leave the career track often put themselves at an economic disadvantage. If their husbands die, become disabled or divorce them, these women -- many of whom are well-educated but with little experience -- struggle to make ends meet.
The Employee Benefits Research Institute released the results of its 17th annual Retirement Confidence Survey today, and well, it's not pretty.
We underestimate how much money we're going to need to retire and we overestimate how much we'll receive from pensions and other employer-based programs.
We also underestimate how long we're going to live. Check out the full results of the study here.
Yippee. What are we supposed to do about it? Most of us already feel stretched, and to learn that we're still not saving adequately is enough to make us throw up our hands in disgust.
