How Social Security Short-Changes Women PRI Study By: Naomi Lopez, Dominique M. Lazanski 12.1.1998
Women’s groups and the media often portray proposals to replace the current Social Security system with a system of individually-owned retirement accounts as discriminatory towards women – believing that government’s current Social Security system is better designed to provide a secure retirement. As the debate on the best way to save the Social Security system from its looming insolvency heats up, it is becoming increasingly important to reveal the many ways in which Social Security’s current design is actually harming women’s prospects for a secure retirement.
