Thursday, 9 November 2017
Musings and Amusings
15:17
Book Review, Bubbles, Debt, Education, Environment, Everyday Money, Finance and Investments, Investing, Money, Small Business, Wealth, Who's counting?
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Don’t Lean
In. Opt Out
Manifestoes
for working women, much like working women themselves, are often held to an impossibly
high standard. Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In
was a best-seller, but critics – male and female – tore it apart because it
asked women alone to fix their broken work environment. The criticism is valid;
Sandberg has since admitted that it would be hard for a single mother to follow
her advice. And yet male-authored advice books...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
Womenomics
09:35
Education, Everyday Money, Finance and Investments, Marriage, Musings and Amusings, Rights, Sex, Trends, Wealth
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Why Put a
Ring on It?
In America,
women are waiting longer to wed than ever, and many are choosing not to do so
at all. The freedom to pursue high-powered careers and sexually diverse lives
without fear of pregnancy or stigma has turned marriage into a choice, not
destiny. By 2009 nearly half of all American adults younger than 34 had never
married, a rise of 12 percentage points in less than a decade. Unmarried women
outnumber married ones...
Friday, 27 October 2017
Frame and Investment
Women Are
Owning More and More Small Businesses
Owning your
own business is often touted as the ultimate coup in the working world. You set
your own hours, pursue projects you’re interested in, and maybe work in your
pajamas.
About 29%
of America’s business owners are women, that’s up from 26% in 1997. The number
of women-owned firms has grown 68% since 2007, compared with 47% for all
businesses.
The
progress for minority women has...
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Everyday Money
This is One Inheritance You Don't Want
You may have received a big inheritance, even if you're not aware of it: how you handle your money.
Economics
professors at the University of Copenhagen have found that if a parent was in
default on a loan at the end of the year (their study looked at data from 2004
to 2011), the chance of default for their children was more than four times as
high as for those whose parents were model financial citizens....
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Why?
Men Aren’t
the Smartest When it Comes to Credit
The majority
of men – 61% - describe their knowledge of how credit scores work as good or
excellent.
They might
want to take a refresher.
More than
40% of men and women questioned in a new poll think a person’s age, marital
status, and ethnicity are among the components that determine a credit score.
Of course, none of them are. On all three of those questions, a significantly
higher...
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Musings & Amusings

The gender pay gap persists almost
everywhere – and has done so since pre Victorian times.
On average, women earn 18% less than men, according to analysis by Korn Ferry
Hay Group, a consulting firm which looked at more than 8m employees in 33
countries. The pay gap is largely explained by a lack of women in highly paid
roles. Women make up 40% of the global workforce for clerical jobs but only 17%
of executive roles. However, the pay...