Retirement Plans Appeal To Full-Time Female Workers

Men and women have similar overall retirement plan participation levels, but full-time, full-year female workers may be more likely to participate than comparable male workers are.

Researchers at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, made that discovery when they analyzed 2007 U.S. Census Bureau data.

The researchers also found wide disparities in plan participation by age.

When they researchers looked at data for all workers, they found that about 42% of both men and women took part in a retirement plan if a plan was offered by their employers.