Women, Marriage, and Wealth: The Impact of Marital Status on the Economic Well-Being of Women Through the Lifecourse by Joyce A. Joyce

“A comprehensive, credible analysis of the patterns and variations in the likelihood that women will spend their elderly years in poverty. . . . Joyce makes an accessible case that the economic infrastructure of old age support—including attitudes toward women in their families—must change to reduce the risk of poverty for older widows or divorced and never-married women.”—CHOICE