The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

Earlier today Casey B. Mulligan wrote about how the entry of more women into the work force has helped sustain the solvency of Social Security, which has been otherwise stressed by the size of the retiring baby boom generation and longer life expectancies. The decisions by many more women to trade in their aprons for pantsuits in the last few decades meant that there were more workers paying Social Security taxes — taxes that financed the Social Security paychecks given to this growing army of older Americans.

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