Social Security is particularly important to older women, many who never worked and do not have pensions or other savings to fall back on.

JPMorgan Chase Bank settled a claim by several retirement funds that it breached its fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 for $150 million.

NHP booked record revenue of nearly $788 million in 2011, an increase of 13.5 percent over 2010.

In the past year, the number of women-owned companies has risen by 200,000, translating to a little less than 550 new women-owned firms per day.