Women are about to bring home even more of the bacon. Here’s what that means for investors.
By Justin Lahart and Lauren Silva Laughlin Aug. 9, 2019 5:30 am ET First in a series on Women in the Economy Over the past half-century, women have profoundly reshaped the U.S. economy. The changes that are happening now could be just as significant. Investors should take notice.
That hardly counts as pay parity, and the gap is particularly large in the upper echelons of management. There has been significant progress, though. There were no women chief executives in the Fortune 500 in 1970. Now there are 33 and all of the companies in the S&P 500 now have at least one woman on their board of directors.
The education gap is showing up in traditional married couples. It is now more common for a woman to be more educated than her husband than vice versa. That might be what is behind another change: As of 2017, 31% of women earned as much or more than their husbands, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. That compares to 25% in 2000 and just 13% in 1980.
Such conservatism extends toward women’s investing behavior. This may hurt funds offering investment strategies to investors that are riskier or more active and aid funds with passive strategies—a clear industry trend recently.
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