What Keeps Single Women From Saving for Retirement?

What Keeps Single Women From Saving for Retirement?

What Keeps Single Women From Saving for Retirement?

Women’s social roles—not to mention structural economic constraints—actually make it more expensive to be female in the United States.

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According to a recent Time magazine survey, only 27 percent of unmarried women without a high school diploma have enough money saved for retirement. On today’s Sound Off segment on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry explains how women’s social roles—not to mention structural economic constraints—actually make it more expensive to be female in the United States, all of which keeps women from saving for the future.

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