Retired Women Are Worse Off Financially Than Men. (Grrrrr!) Here’s Why and How to Fix

As we've been going about our careers, most of us have focused intently on the gender wage gap. The one that shows women earning, on average, just 82 cents for every $1 earned by men. The one that, depressingly, shows only a nine-cent improvement of our standing since the turn of the 21st Century.

But now that we're seeing retirement in our future, or are already there, here's something new to think about. We've got a big problem with our retirement funding, compared to men.

That's the findings of a new report, How Does Gender Equality Affect Women in Retirement, by the Brookings Institute. It seems that our shittier paychecks impacts us significantly even when we're no longer working. Great!