Tag: Title IX
The brief’s key findings are: In the 50 years since Title IX’s passage, women have made major economic progress in education, earnings, and wealth. They have also become more independent, with late baby boomers spending less than half their adult lives married. Moving away from marriage, by reducing support from a spouse, could have put…
A movement away from marriage does not appear to have undone economic gains. We recently completed a study, using the Health and Retirement Study, to assess the retirement preparedness of women in the wake of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in any educational activity receiving federal funding. The gains for women…