Although both men and women experience similar declines in their financial literacy as they age, a persistent gender gap in financial literacy remains among older adults. However, since women tend to live longer than men, older women are most likely to benefit from efforts to improve financial literacy.
Tiantian Yang of Penn's Wharton School has conducted a new study that found women who have been rejected from gig work in IT and computer programming are less likely to reapply and less likely to pursue future work in STEM than rejected men. This pattern was not found among men who had been rejected from work in writing and translation, two fields dominated by women.
The women in new posts are Deloris Pettis at Northeastern University, Judith Burnfield at the University of Nebraska, Christine Tysor at Virginia Tech, Amber Ivins at Rice University, Monica Medina at the Wharton School and Cara Leeman at the University of Wisconsin.
