Thehawaiiherald

Jane Yamamoto-Burigsay Courtesy: Social Security Administration Especially in March - Women's History Month - we celebrate "Rosie the Riveter," the American icon who represented women working in factories during World War II. These women learned new jobs and filled in for the men who were away at war.

Bc

Mothers often work less because, well, they're also moms. Still, they generally work consistently enough to qualify for Social Security pensions based on their own earnings records - rather than on their husbands', as was common when more women were full-time housewives or worked just a few hours a week while the kids were at school.

Daily Kos

Women aren't just running for Congress in record numbers-they're also running for governor in record numbers: This year, at least 79 women - 49 Democrats and 30 Republicans - are running for governor or seriously considering it as filing deadlines...

CNBC

Watch out, moms: The motherhood penalty can extend into retirement. Mothers with one child receive 16 percent less in Social Security benefits at age 62 than non-mothers do, according to a new paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Each additional child reduces benefits by 2 percent more.

Baltimoresun

PRESENTED BY This advertiser has no influence over Editorial decisions or content. Meet the Baltimore area's most intriguing movers and shakers of 2017. Look for the 25 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct. 8.

baltimoresun.com

Even if women's pay were suddenly equal to men's, inequities will remain, because of the disparity many years ago. Here's what I mean. A senior citizen at last, I now receive Social Security. The amount of the monthly check is directly proportional to what I have paid into the system over the course of my working life.

Marinij

There were women in trees, women on tiptoe atop ledges, all trying to peer over the hundreds of thousands of heads in pink hats filling Washington's National Mall for the Women's March in January. In all of her 69 years, Judy Seguin neve

Bloomberg.com

Motherhood is changing, as are mothers' working lives-and those changes have economists concerned. For a while, women around the world were making clear economic progress. More of them were working, and they were earning more (and boosting the global economy in the process). But in the past few decades, that progress has stalled.