ALSO, add to that the fact that in our "ownership" society, nobody's going to pay for your retirement except for you, it's really important for women to have their own retirement savings.
The new Woody Allen film stars Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an irate New Yorker who once had a beautiful wife and a serious reputation as a physicist. (Or so he tells us, talking straight to the camera.) Now he has a lousy apartment, no job unless you count chess tutoring and nobody to share his life except for a few cronies.