Social Security Benefits
Social Security Reform: How Might Women Fare?
Research Report
John B. Williamson, Boston College
January 1998
This 20-page issue brief examines the importance of Social Security to women now and into the 21st century, especially with respect to their continued economic vulnerability. It also addresses issues of benefit adequacy and equity for women and assesses how some of the more prominent proposed changes to the Social Security system might affect them.
Pub ID: IB31