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Women in their 50s who are at the most financial risk in retirement are those who are married and in two-income households. That's the surprising news from a recent report on women and retirement from Prudential Financial.

The finding is based on research of women ages 50 to 59 from the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College. According to CRR's National Retirement Risk Index, 46% of married women in their 50s in two-income households are at risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement vs. 32% of married women that age in one-income households and 39% of women in their 50s who've never been married.

To be frank, these statistics were somewhat unexpected to me. I've spent decades reporting on the challenges surrounding women and money. And I researched the financial vulnerability of divorced and widowed women for my book Money Confidence: Really Smart Financial Moves for Newly Single Women.

\nAlso on Forbes: Why Certain Women Are at Greatest Retirement Risk

I'd have thought - and you might have, too - that married women in two-income households have a leg up for retirement security over their single, one-income household counterparts. There are, however, several root reasons for the study's results.

\"Two-income households typically make more, but save less,\" says Cindy Hounsell, president of the Washington D.C.-based Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) nonprofit and a Next Avenue Influencer In Aging. \"They are living a two-income standard of living and spend more on expenses - two cars and a bigger house, for instance - so I'm not that surprised. They're having a nicer life while it is going, rather than saving for retirement. There's a bit of denial when it comes to retirement planning.\"

Married women in two-income households also often aren't saving as much as they could in workplace retirement plans.

In half of the two-earner couples surveyed, only one earner is covered by an employer retirement plan, according to Prudential. And the partner who is covered typically doesn't increase his or her retirement plan contributions to offset that circumstance.

\nWomen and Retirement Savings

The average 401(k) savings rate for one-income households and two-income, two-saver households is typically around 8% to 9% of household earnings, CRR says. But the average savings rate for two-income, one-saver households, it found, is only 4.9% of household earnings.

A new T. Rowe Price 401(k) survey said that boomer women have a 401(k) savings balance of $59,000, much less than half of the $138,000 median balance of boomer men.

\nThe Social Security Trap

Two-income households also typically get lower Social Security benefits per tax dollar paid than one-income households, the Prudential report noted.

\"The spousal benefit generally declines once the second spouse starts working, and disappears completely once the lower-earning spouse's own benefit exceeds one-half the higher earner's benefit, Prudential explained.

Meantime, another new report from the National Council on Aging found that 60% of women age 60 and older and approaching, or at retirement, are worried their health care costs will exceed retirement income. And only 62% of women surveyed by Allianz Life said they feel financially secure, down from 68% in 2016.

Put it all together and \"this is a wake-up call for married women,\" Hounsell says. \"Pay attention.\"

\n5 Tips for 50+ Women in 2-Income Households

Here are five ways women over 50 in two-income households can protect themselves from being financially at risk in retirement:

1. Plan your finances as if you were solo. \"I wouldn't be counting on anyone,\" Hounsell says. \"I was married for almost 20 years, and thankfully, I wasn't putting my eggs in someone else's basket.\"

Janice Co, chief strategy officer, Workplace Solutions Group at Prudential Financial, concurs. \"Both working spouses should be saving as opposed to relying on one partner,\" says Co.

2. Make saving a priority. \"There is always a common theme among women and it's that we don't put ourselves first,\" Co says. \"We save after all our expenses and debt is taken care of. We put off saving for our 'future selves' because we have mortgages, credit card debt and student loan debt, or we're saving for college for our children. And we think time will be on our side to get to our longer-term needs...We tend to put ourselves last.\"

I agree completely. Often, women over 50 are financial caregivers to their adult children or to their parents. But taking care of your own needs is an integral part of financial fitness.

If you have access to a workplace retirement plan, increase your contribution rate by just one percentage point (from, say, 8% to 9%) and try to add another percentage point in successive years. A reminder from Co: \"If you're 50 or over, you can contribute more\" to a 401(k) than if you're younger. That means you're allowed to put in an extra $6,000 in 2019, over the standard maximum of $19,000.

\"If you don't have access to a retirement plan at work, open an IRA and contribute as much as you can,\" says Co.

3. Stay on the job longer, if you can. This is my mantra. Longer work cuts the drawdown on financial assets. It could increase the time you're covered by employer-based health insurance, reducing out-of-pocket spending on health care costs.

Increased earning years may also let you push back beginning to claim your Social Security benefit until age 70. Doing so can bump up your benefit by 8% annually.

Plus, additional years of work at older ages might offset earlier years of low or zero earnings (during caregiving years) for your retirement benefits computation formula.

Continuing to work, even part-time, can also help stave off dipping into retirement accounts, allowing them to grow, and let you sock away additional retirement funds.

4. Have regular money conversations with your spouse. A recent UBS poll of 3,652 high-net worth married women, widows and divorcees found 58% defer long-term financial decisions to their spouses or ex-spouses.

And 54% of the married women said their spouse takes the lead in handling the family's finances beyond paying bills. They didn't participate in long-term financial planning or investing decisions. One reason: Some of the women said they thought their spouse knows more about finances.

I believe that failing to talk about your household's finances with your spouse shows a lack of trust in the foundation of your relationship. Build your investment and retirement portfolios as a team. It keeps both of you accountable.

5. Work with a financial adviser. As I wrote in my Next Avenue column, \"What Women Want in a Financial Adviser,\" it's helpful to find someone you can trust to help you manage your money. \"Women want someone who they can talk openly to about their lives,\" Maddy Dychtwald, an author and a founder of Age Wave, a think tank and consultancy, told me. She wrote an excellent women and money report with Merrill Lynch: \" Women and Financial Wellness: Beyond the Bottom Line.\"

Seek out an adviser who appreciates your financial issues, your caregiving load, your career and your money goals (which might not be the same as your spouse's). And find one who can offer a holistic approach, not just providing investment and retirement-planning advice.

My husband and I work with the same adviser. She meets with us both separately and together and helps us stay on a solid path - solo and as a team.

As Co says: For married couples, \"retirement is a joint activity so 'saving for retirement' should be as well.\"

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Three of the nation's most influential activists are launching an organization that aims to harness the political power of women to influence elections and shape local and national policy priorities.

Dubbed Supermajority, the organization is the creation of Cecile Richards, the former head of Planned Parenthood; Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter; and Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. The group, which describes itself as multiracial and intergenerational, has a goal of training and mobilizing 2 million women over the next year to become organizers and political leaders in their communities.

The effort comes at a moment when women have emerged as perhaps the most powerful force in politics.

Millions of women marched in cities across America to protest President Donald Trump's election. Women also comprise the majority of the electorate in the 2018 midterm elections, sending a historic number of female candidates to Congress and helping Democrats retake control of the House. A record number of women are also seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, including four senators.

Richards, who has long been a force in Democratic politics, said women \"feel newly empowered and frankly motivated to take action, including so many women who never thought themselves as an activist before.\"

Richards, Garza and Poo spent the past year traveling the country talking to women about how to harness their activism. They found that despite increased energy, many women find getting involved in politics intimidating and are unclear about how to do more than just march or protest.

\"Women are mad as hell and we've been in resistance mode for two years,\" Garza said. \"Now it's time to equip people.\"

Supermajority isn't expected to endorse individual candidates. But the group will help educate women about candidates' positions on issues including pay equity and affordable child care and push politicians to adopt an agenda akin to what Richards called a \"women's new deal.\"

The effort will be aided by Libby Chamberlain and Cortney Tunis, co-founders of the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation, which was started in the closing weeks of the 2016 election for supporters of Hillary Clinton. The online community now has more than 3.5 million female members.

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The record number of women legislators on Capitol Hill could have a positive impact on women's retirement security. More than 100 women were sworn-into office as members of the U.S. House last week.

This new \"sisterhood\" of lawmakers brings a stronger female perspective to the nation's retirement challenges - which disproportionately affect women - and the possibility of reversing long-term trends that will decrease women's financial stability during their senior years.

Historically, women have had fewer assets and income in retirement, and depend more heavily on Social Security to make ends meet. The ongoing gender pay gap - and time away from the workforce caring for family - diminish women's Social Security retirement benefits. In 2018, women's average monthly benefits were 21 percent lower than men's. At the same time, women's greater longevity means their retirement dollars must stretch over a greater number of years.

As mothers, caregivers, and members of the workforce, most women of the 116th Congress understand these critical issues and are well positioned to affect change. Elle magazine described some of the incoming lawmakers as \"women who can't afford their rent until their new job starts... women who look nothing like Mr. Smith, and who are revolutionizing Washington.\"

In fact, studies have shown that female lawmakers elevate policies benefiting women more than their male counterparts do. \"We can't predict X, Y, Z policy will pass, but we can safely say that there will be issues brought to the table that have otherwise not been there,\" Rutgers political science professor Kelly Dittmar recently told the online news site, \"Vox.\"

Of course, improving women's retirement security begins with protecting the financial health of all older Americans, as victorious candidates in the 2018 midterms promised. Freshman Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen (D), who took time off of work to care for elderly parents, pledged to oppose \"any attempt to cut or privatize Medicare and Social Security.\"

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) scored an upset victory in Virginia vowing to \"protect Social Security and Medicare so we can meet our obligations to seniors, now and into the future.\" Incoming New Mexico Deborah Haaland (D) declared, \"We must defend Medicare, expand Social Security, and provide tax credits for families who care for their elders.\"

Indeed, boosting Social Security and Medicare benefits would go a long way toward improving women's retirement security. Congress could enact legislation that has languished under previous leadership on Capitol Hill to do just that, including Rep. John Larson's (D-Conn.) Social Security 2100 Act and myriad bills to enhance Medicare benefits, such as Rep. Debbie Dingell's (D-Mich.) Medicare Hearing Aid Coverage Act.

But there is even more to be done to increase elderly women's financial security:

\nGender pay equity

Strengthen and reform the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by putting an end to pay secrecy, enhance workers' ability to challenge discrimination and bringing equal pay law into line with other civil rights laws.

\nCaregiver credit

Create an annual Social Security caregiver credit for each year spent away from the workforce caring for family (up to five years).

\nImprove survivor benefits

Increase the benefit paid to a surviving spouse to an amount that is equal to 75 percent of the total combined benefits that were paid to the couple prior to the spouse's death, capped at the benefit level of a lifelong average earner.

\nConsumer Price Index for the elderly

Adopt the Consumer Price Index for The Elderly (CPI-E) for the purpose of determining cost-of living adjustments (COLAs) for Social Security benefits. This would be especially valuable to women because they live longer.

\nBoost benefits for beneficiaries 85+

Provide a bump-up in benefits at age 85, which would help older women better keep pace with increases in the cost of living.

These measures would go a long way toward addressing retirement inequities that have been awaiting solutions for decades. None other than Eleanor Roosevelt, whose husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed Social Security into law, realized the depth of the problem more than 80 years ago. She devoted four decades fighting for gender equality and advancing women's economic security, which is why our organization launched an educational initiative called \"Eleanor's Hope\" in her honor.

\"My grandmother's activism for women's equity... was based on her boundless optimism that the American people could move mountains if only freed from the fear of want and destitution,\" said her grandson, James Roosevelt, Jr., Vice Chair of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare advisory board. \"Her hope has yet to be fully realized for too many Americans.\"

In 2018, we supported candidates in the midterm elections who shared Mrs. Roosevelt's vision of freeing the elderly from the \"fear of want and destitution.\" Most of the candidates we backed were victorious - and nearly thirty of them were women. As the Boston Herald observed on the day the 116th Congress was gaveled into session, \"Voters sent a clear message to Washington in the mid-term election: They want real change and they want women to get the job done.\"

Max Richtman is president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

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The rules for Social Security benefits were first established in the 1930s and continue to be based on the idea of the traditional family.
Changing marriage patterns and caregiving needs put the modern woman at a distinct disadvantage, even as they face longer life spans, less earnings and fewer years in the work force.
While proposed policies such as caregiver credits could mitigate these negative effects, women today should carefully strategize how they claim so that they don't come up short in their elder years.

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When it comes to claiming Social Security retirement benefits, no one should take the decision of when or how to claim lightly.

And that goes especially for women, who are more likely to suffer financially if they make the wrong choice.

Social Security's rules for retirement benefits were first set in the 1930s. And they have haven't necessarily caught up with today's families.

That puts one party in particular at a disadvantage: the modern woman, according research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. A 2018 survey by Nationwide found that 62 percent of women expect Social Security benefits to be their primary source of income in retirement.

How much Social Security retirement benefits you receive is largely based on your work record. The Social Security Administration averages your highest 35 years of earnings.

There are two other important ways of claiming benefits based on your marital status: spousal benefits and survivor benefits. And those strategies are still more commonly used by women, according to Andrew Eschtruth, communications director at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and co-author of the research.

But marital patterns have changed. Shorter marriages - those that lasted less than 10 years - mean that spousal or survivor benefits are often off the table.

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Meanwhile, many women are still taking time out of the work force to care for children, parents and sometimes even spouses. Consequently, their own earnings records and resulting Social Security benefits take a hit.

\"The concern comes in when you have a woman who has two responsibilities, one as a worker, one as a mother,\" Eschtruth said. \"Those two responsibilities can come into conflict ... It's harder for her to have the same level of benefits and protection of Social Security as it would have provided to that more traditional household.\"

Persistent challenges

Women still largely face an uphill battle when it comes to claiming Social Security and planning for retirement, Nationwide's 2018 survey found.

\"Women have some unusual challenges relative to men, in that they live longer, so they're spending more years in retirement,\" said Tina Ambrozy, president of sales and distribution at Nationwide. \"They also have issues with the wage gap of not earning as much.\"

Once they are in retirement, women are facing high health care costs and live longer. And their expectations from Social Security are not always realistic.

Most women - 58 percent - expect Social Security to cover all of their expenses in retirement. In reality, those benefits will only cover about 40 percent of their retirement costs, according to Ambrozy.

One reason for that: Women are spending 10 years out of the work force, on average, to serve as caregivers, Ambrozy said.

Possible changes

One potential change to Social Security rules that could reduce that pressure on women: Caregiver credits, according to the Center for Retirement Research.

The idea is not new. Caregiver credits are available to citizens of other parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany.

The credits could work one of two ways, according to Eschtruth. They could take away the years when a caregiver earned zero out of the equation, thus bringing the average for their highest earning years higher.

Or the individual could receive a straight wage credit, where money that the individual did not technically make would be factored into those calculations to compensate them for caregiving.

So far, proposals for caregiving credits have mostly stayed on the periphery of policy debates, according to Eschtruth.

\"The real issue is the extent to which the country's major social insurance program, Social Security, takes into account the changing labor force and marital patterns ... and whether motherhood or fatherhood is expressly valued,\" Eschtruth said.

How to plan

Because there are thousands of rules for claiming Social Security, it is easy for anyone to miss a strategy that could give them a bigger paycheck. For women, the stakes are higher.

\"Women have so many strikes against them,\" said financial advisor Cary Carbonaro, managing director at United Capital. \"We need more money, not less money.\"

By actively planning for Social Security, women can avoid coming up short.

Start strategizing early.

Avoid claiming at 62.

\nKeep timing in mind. Think about the consequences that a divorce or death of a spouse could have on your claiming strategy. You may want to push a divorce until a bit later if you're close to the 10-year mark, said Natalie Colley, an analyst at Francis Financial. Also keep in mind that you can't claim a spousal benefit within two years of getting a divorce, she said. Survivor benefits can be claimed starting at age 60 following the death of a spouse.
\nGet a professional opinion. Coordinating the best strategy for an individual - and their spouse, if relevant - requires expertise. \"It's a big decision, and I think people take it lightly,\" Carbonaro said. \"They don't realize it's going to impact them for the rest of their lives.\"

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Just over a century ago, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won a seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman ever elected to federal office. In 1917, 128 years after the first United States Congress convened, she was sworn into its 65th session.

One hundred and two years later, one has become 131 - the number of women serving in both chambers of the 116th Congress as of this month.

For most of recorded American history, political power has looked a certain way. Portraits of power call certain images to mind - those of older, white men, dressed in suits and depicted in formal settings.

The 2018 midterm elections ushered in a change in representation; for the first time, more than 100 women serve in the House of Representatives - out of 435 seats - and members of color were elected in more states than ever before.

This portraits series documents the women of the 116th Congress in their totality. Like the work of Kehinde Wiley, who painted Barack Obama's official presidential portrait, these photographs evoke the imagery we are used to seeing in the halls of power, but place people not previously seen as powerful starkly in the frames.

Viewed together, these portraits demonstrate the scale of the number of women in both the House and Senate. But, when seen as singular portraits, each image represents an individual with her own perspective - in political beliefs, personal goals and histories.

Many of these women, spanning generations, serve as firsts in Congress: the first women representing their states, the first female combat veteran, the first Native American women, the first Muslim women, the first openly gay member of the Senate, the first woman Speaker of the House - the list goes on.

Though women's numbers in Congress have, on average, risen over the years, growth has been neither linear nor steady. And while white women have served in Congress since 1917, and in the Senate since 1922 (though at the time only for one day), it wasn't until 1964 that a woman of color was elected, when Patsy Takemoto Mink was voted into the House. The Senate did not have its first woman of color until Illinois elected Carol Moseley Braun in 1992.

Recent gains in women's representation have been unevenly split across the political aisle. While in the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans had roughly the same number of women serving, about 80 percent of the women in Congress now are Democrats.

What it means to be a woman in power varies significantly, even among this class of 131 women. For some, their identity as women is an integral aspect of their life experiences and thus their legislative approach. Others say they are not defined by their gender and should be seen as politicians that happen to be women, rather than women politicians.

More women holding elected office is significant not only in that it brings Congress closer to looking like the American population. It also expands the collective imagination about what power can and should look like.

Portraits of these women of the 116th Congress are a testament to what power looks like in 2019 - and the possibilities of what it may look like in the years to come.

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\nOn November 6, 2018, 35 new women were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, making this incoming class the most diverse by race and gender in the body's 230-year history. They join nearly 70 women incumbents, resulting in over 100 women representatives. To commemorate the milestone, photographer Christelle de Castro captured 27 of the Members-Elect during their first week of Orientation. (The eight who weren't photographed were unavailable due to scheduling conflicts). Journalist Jill Filipovic expounds on the significance of the moment.

It was Ayanna Pressley, at the airport, who finally got to me. This past November, two years after Donald Trump lost the popular vote but still won the White House, a record number of women swept to victory in the midterm elections. When they are sworn into Congress on January 3, among them will be the first Muslim congresswomen, the first Native American congresswomen, and the first African American congresswomen from New England-Jahana Hayes and Pressley. En route to freshman orientation in Washington, DC, Pressley tweeted a photo of herself at the airport, looking jaunty in an olive coat and page-boy cap. The photo caption referenced the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but Pressley advised her followers to \"scratch that,\" and replace Mr. Smith with \"Sandy Pressley's daughter, Mrs. Ayanna Soyini Pressley Harris.\" She then thanked the late Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and a 1972 presidential candidate.

After two years of stewing darkly in the cynicism of post-2016 America, I thought any spark of political optimism I may have once held had been tamped down to embers. For as long as America has been a nation, Congress has been dominated by white men. Women like Chisholm chipped away at the seemingly immovable, forever truth of white male majority rule; women like Hillary Clinton-even if she did not ultimately win the presidency-did, too. And here was Pressley, asserting her place on that trajectory. Things do not improve or progress by themselves. Pressley at the airport flying to Washington-all of these women taking their seats in Congress-is one more marker of progress within a long history of hard-won victories and agonizing failures.

Looking into Pressley's face smiling back at me from my phone, I felt, for the first time in a long time, a little bit of light seep in.

I was admittedly late to the optimism party. In the months leading up to the midterms, women (and a lot of men) around the country had been busting their butts to elect those who would go on to make up the most diverse Congress ever. They were fueled by steady determination and simmering fury. Trump's inauguration coincided with the largest march in U.S. history, an event focused on women's rights and attended by millions who seemed simultaneously outraged and a touch sheepish at their own complacency. Too many people had been too comfortable, too sure that the hypercompetent, overly qualified woman would beat the reality TV star, an unrepentant misogynist who had never held elected office. 2016 was an awakening. And when the 2018 midterms rolled around, these women weren't about to make the same mistake twice.

The women who rode the pink wave to Congress are not business-as-usual politicians. They're young, lesbian and bisexual, women of color, immigrants. Women who clap back to haters on Twitter. Women who can't afford their rent until their new job starts.

Several congresswomen Instagrammed and tweeted their trips to Washington, conversing directly with constituents and exuding both excitement about their new roles and respect for the gravity that comes with public service. They showed how the process works, demystified it, made politics look fun. Following them on social media felt human and relatable. Their unvarnished enthusiasm also betrayed a total lack of entitlement. Unlike so many congressmen before them, the women posting selfies from DC never presumed that the title of \"congresswoman\" was their birthright.

But of course, breaking the old rules-or even just doing things a little differently-is never cost-free. The new class has faced skepticism often out of proportion to its actual influence, scrutiny that goes beyond typical political hardball. During congressional orientation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who at 29 is the youngest woman to serve in Congress, tweeted that staff repeatedly mistook her for an intern or a spouse; several right-wing commentators called her a liar. The next day, someone on the Hill took a covert photo of Ocasio-Cortez in a fairly unremarkable but perfectly professional outfit, and a conservative journalist tweeted it out, remarking, \"That jacket and coat don't look like a girl who struggles.\" The snark was meant to undermine Ocasio-Cortez's earlier disclosure that she needs her congressional salary to kick in before she can afford rent in DC.

Ocasio-Cortez has been something of a lightning rod for political controversy, mostly because she's an outspoken, far-left young woman who is attractive but in no way submissive or compliant (a combination that triggers a special kind of rage in her detractors). Among her new female peers in Congress, she has gotten both the bulk of the coverage and the bulk of the public criticism. But her experiences, which she has documented on social media, are just a preview of what she and her similarly situated colleagues will surely face. When they start pushing for real change, things are going to get worse-much worse.

Women in power almost never have an easy path.

While backlash and disappointment are likely, disillusionment is only as powerful as we make it. That isn't a plea for overlooking craven decision-making or political expediency, but rather an offering to savor this particular moment and know that the highs are what sustain and arm us for the unavoidable lows. Change begets change, and this moment marks not the conclusion of a struggle, but one signpost in a longer journey toward a truly equitable nation. Let the record show that in 2018, we crept ever closer to a Congress that is truly by and for the people.

This is a seismic shift; such significant movement means the ground under our feet may not always feel stable. Right now, we fortify our roots by soaking up the joy of advancement and basking in the glow of Instagram feeds of women who look nothing like Mr. Smith, and who are revolutionizing Washington.

Hair and makeup by Ellen Guhin for Amika and Becca Cosmetics

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