Chapter 14 discusses the financial status of elderly women. According to this discussion,

a. only about 10% of Canadian women over the age of 65 are in the low-income bracket.
b. in the United States, women over the age of 55 have an average annual income that is about 90% of the average annual income that men have.
c. Latina and African American women are just as likely as European American women to have a pension plan.
d. older women in the United States have lower incomes than older men, but women and men actually have comparable incomes, once you take health-care expenses into account.

A