Boomer Retirement Briefs™

How Boomers Are Reshaping and Redefining "Retirement"

For Women

Is retirement different for women?  How about Social Security?  The short answer is YES.  And for so many different reasons.  Not the least of which is that women will live longer than most men.  We need to be prepared for that very fact.

Women from coast to coast need more information about planning for their retirement and financial security.  They need ideas for getting the conversation going.

In this section of Boomer Retirement Briefs, you can explore many of the reasons retirement will be different for women.  It gives you a place to go for information geared particularly to women.  There are worksheets, guides, and helpful resources throughout these posts. 

Use everything available and let me know if there are other topics you would like to see here.

Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote

Image of a vintage woman casting her vote

This August we celebrated 100 years of women’s right to vote.  On August 18, 1920, after 72 years of a sustained, strategic, and sometimes shocking battle, women's suffrage was won.  You know some of their names:  Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Sojourner  [Read more...]

A Woman’s Walk Down Wall Street

Women's history month icon

Celebrating How Far Women Have Come in the World of Money March is Woman’s History Month.  This year, I wanted to recognize the women who paved the path for me and so many other women to work in financial services.  So, I wrote an article  [Read more...]

Divorce and Retirement: 5 Financial Pitfalls to Avoid

Divorce can have a big impact on your retirement finances and plans. Watch out for the pitfalls. Divorce is an emotional, financial, and draining process. Add to the mix that the tax rules for alimony payments changed after almost eight decades as of January 2019.  [Read more...]

Boomer Women and Their Money: A Complicated Past

Here's quite an interesting story that sums up the current state of women and money. It's definitely complicated. Three women who are clearly friends sat behind me on a flight to Tampa recently. I was minding my own business, reading Sarah Smarsh's book, Heartland. It's  [Read more...]

Early Retirement Offer in Your 50s: To Take or Not to Take? That is the Question.

What would you do if you opened your email today and had a note from Human Resources that you are now eligible for an early retirement package?  Would you jump for joy?  Feel paralyzed?  Think this was an incredible insult? Many women are facing this  [Read more...]