Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling (May 11, 2012)

Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling

Coalition of National Organizations Present a Proposal to Modernize America’s Retirement Benefits

While the gender gap may be shrinking in the work place, it’s alive and well in retirement, leaving millions of retired women struggling just to get by.  The poverty rate for senior women and widows is 50% higher than other retirees 65 and older, yet this inequity has largely been ignored in Washington.

Three of the nation’s leading seniors’ and women’s organizations have joined forces to examine the challenges facing America’s elderly women and provide proposals to modernize benefits. The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Foundation, the National Organization for Women Foundation and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research will release Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling to Congressional staff and reporters in a Capitol Hill briefing in May.

Friday, May 11th

9:30am

Room 2237 Rayburn House Office Building

Moderator: Max Richtman – NCPSSM President/CEO
Speakers:

• Invited: Rep. Donna Edwards, (D-MD)

• Dr. Carroll Estes - NPCSSM Foundation Board Chair and founding Director of the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco

• Terry O’Neill - President, the National Organization for Women Foundation

• Dr. Heidi Hartman – President, Institute for Women's Policy Research

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Media Inquiries to:

Pamela Causey 202-216-8378/202-236-2123

Kim Wright 202-216-8414 www.ncpssm.org