POSTPONED! Why the Financial Journey for Women is Different: How Women Can Safeguard a Secure Financial Future
We all want to ensure a secure financial future, but women have unique retirement challenges that men do not.
Women live longer than men.
Women earn less than men during their working years.
Women receive significantly lower retirement benefits than men.
Women have fewer years of earned income.
Women are more likely to work part-time jobs.
Early in Cindy Hounsell’s career she worked for a company that froze her pension plan. She went on to law school and began working on women’s retirement issues and saw the need to improve opportunities for women to secure retirement income and to educate the public about the inequities that disadvantage women.
Hounsell is the President of WISER, the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement which she founded in 1996; she also serves as Director of the National Resource Center on Women and Retirement which is the Center WISER operates in partnership with the U.S. Administration on Aging. As an attorney and retirement expert she has been widely quoted in news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, N.Y. Times, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes/PBS Next Avenue, and interviewed by GMA, CBS, CNN, CNBC and NPR’s A-1, All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Marketplace.
In 2018, Ms. Hounsell was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Plan Sponsor Council of America. Ms. Hounsell was also named a 2015 Influencer in Aging by PBS- Next Avenue. which highlights 50 thought leaders, researchers, experts, executives and everyday people who are redefining what it means to grow older in America. Ms. Hounsell was named by Women’s eNews as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, and Money magazine named her one of its 40 Money Heroes for helping women secure their financial futures.
Cindy Hounsell is Ms. Hounsell has testified before Congress, served as a delegate for a number of White House Summits and conferences including the last two White House Conferences on Aging, the White House Social Security Conference and each of the National Retirement Saver Summits. She has written several chapters, columns, articles, op-eds, papers and booklets on women and retirement. Two booklets—What Every WOMAN Needs to Know About MONEY And RETIREMENT: A Simple Guide, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Money and Retirement—appeared as inserts in Good Housekeeping magazine to a readership of over 26 million.
Ms. Hounsell provides technical assistance to several national organizations, as well as provides training to leaders and grassroots advocates around the country as part of her role as director of the National Education and Resource Center for Women and Retirement Planning, funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging. Ms. Hounsell was recently appointed by Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, to the ERISA Advisory Council to represent the general public. Ms. Hounsell was also appointed and served for two years on the Advisory Panel on Medicare Education (APME) representing the field of retirement and financial planning. She serves on the Boards of the National Alliance for Caregiving and STRIVE-DC, as well as on the Advisory Council of Wider Opportunities for Women’s Elder Economic Security Initiative, and the Financial Services Roundtable’s Retirement Advisory Council. Recently, The National Adult Protective Services Association recognized Ms. Hounsell for her leadership and commitment to older women’s issues by presenting her with their NAPSA Collaboration Award.
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