re: Why don't more wives demand their own retirment account?

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The ones that do understand this concept are not going to be stay at home spouses.

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I disagree. There's tons of women that work "professionally" as say a teacher, nurse, etc. that are not at all in charge of their families finances and are pretty clueless on retirement.

There's tons of women that got a professional degree but decided to stay home with the kids and their husband makes 6 figures or much more.

It just seems like you routinely hear about women "needing" a divorce settlement to have any money at all and they go work a "min" wage job to survive after being married 25 years to a doctor, or lawyer, or someone else that is worth $3-4 mil+ plus.

I just don't understand why more women don't demand a percentage of money being set aside for them. I don't understand how you can just live your life completely dependent on someone else I guess?