CWP has never published or promulgated any statistic regarding the widely-circulated quote that women will control two-thirds of all U.S. wealth by the year 2030.  What we have identified in our  research is that a large fraction of the wealth of married decedents transferred through estates will be technically bequeathed to a surviving spouse, and, in roughly two-thirds of all estates with a married decedent, this surviving spouse will be a woman (because women tend to live longer than men).  If the surviving spouse dies without remarrying, the wealth in their estate will be distributed to heirs, taxes, and charities and not necessarily transferred to another woman at that time.

Given the content of national surveys and other representative data concerning wealth, it is impossible to estimate the proportion of total wealth owned by women. The most recent Federal Reserve data (Survey of Consumer Finances for 2010) indicates that 58% of households are headed by a married person, 15% by a not married (never married, separated, divorced, or widowed) male, and 27% by a not married female. The married households own 81.3% ($47.3 trillion) of total wealth, the not married male households own 8.4% ($4.9 trillion), and the not married female households own 10.3% ($6.0 trillion).  It is not possible to attribute ownership among spouses from this SCF data and  the occurrences of joint ownership muddies the ownership waters even more.