Media Coverage
Study: Women New Financial Winners after Divorce
- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: CBS News
- January 18, 2012
Conventional wisdom used to say women were the big financial losers after a divorce.
But a new Pew survey finds women these days are actually bouncing back better than men financially.
The Pew Economic Mobility Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trust, finds 20 percent of women are going to see gains of more than 25 percent in income after a divorce -- double what it was 20 years ago. Men only have a 16 percent gain after a divorce, according to the survey.
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- Economic Mobility Project