Meyer, Madonna Harrington; Wolf, Douglas; Himes, Christine - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 145-162
In the US, marital status is more important than work history in determining economic security for many older women …. Two-thirds of older women in the US receive spouse or widow Social Security benefits. These benefits generally require … recipients to be currently married or to have had a ten-year marriage. Declining marriage rates, coupled with shorter marriages …