By the fourth quarter of 2016, the pay gap had narrowed by just 1%, with women earning 80 cents for every dollar men earned. Retirement investing requires setting aside enough funds to build up an ...

NEW YORK — Women in the U.S. have saved just a third of the amount that men have set aside for retirement, setting up a potential crisis among female retirees, ...

Here are four ways, both big and small, women can do their part to close the gender savings gap. 1. Just start. That is literally the first thing you have to do: get started.

Women statistically outlive men by more than five years in the U.S. Yet when it comes to saving for their retirement years, women are significantly less prepared. Do You Have a Money ...

Women have on average less pension savings than men (Image: GETTY) For adults aged under 30, women were more likely to have a pension than men, with 76 percent of women having one while just 59 ...

Women in the U.S. have saved just a third of the amount that men have set aside for retirement, setting up a potential crisis among female retirees, according to a Prudential Financial survey ...

A 2016 study by the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) found that the median household income of women 65 and older was $47,244 and for men, it was $57,144. In other words, retired ...

Aside from childcare, one in five working women took significant breaks away, compared with 14 percent of men. Men’s monthly savings currently outpace what women aim to put aside, by £296 to £193.

Among the lowest-earning workers, making less than $15,000 per year, 50% of women enrolled, compared to just 42% of their male counterparts. In the mid-range — $50,000 to $74,999 — 88% of ...

The survey also found that U.S. women were much less likely to have (substantial) savings. 9% of men, but just 5% of women said they had saved $100,000 or more—one of the biggest spreads in the ...

In our survey, just 2.4% of men and 1.5% of women had reached $1 million in retirement savings. Five percent of women and 9% of men had saved between $100,000 and $300,000, and 25% of women and 29 ...