Women
Financial-planning needs for women are wide ranging, from juggling career and family responsibilities or finding extra ways to save if they’ve left the work force to care for a young child or an aging parent, to preparing for an average longer life expectancy than men and setting their long-term financial goals.
Building Wealth Beyond Equal Pay: Women's Financial Empowerment
Celebrate International Women's Day by exploring financial strategies that empower women to build wealth, achieve financial independence, and overcome the wage gap. Learn how to invest, diversify income, and plan for long-term financial growth.
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Building wealth is a journey laden with challenges, and for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) women, the path can feel like a continuous uphill battle. Working with a financial planner who can understand the historical and systemic barriers that BIPOC women face can be transformational.
Financial abuse is a sometimes subtle yet pervasive form of domestic manipulation — it involves seizing control over an individual's financial resources. This can manifest in myriad ways, from limiting access to money and hindering employment to coercing income surrender and sabotaging efforts to achieve financial stability.
Many people know about the gendered wage gap, but do you know about the gendered wealth gap? The wage gap has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so — on average, women earned 82% of what men earned in 2022. However, the wealth gap appears considerably larger than the wage gap. One study found that the women respondents had just 55 cents in median wealth for every dollar of wealth owned by men respondents.
This International Women’s Day we honor women around the world and recommit ourselves to overcoming the challenges women face. One challenge that women may face is planning their retirement – women tend to live longer than men but have less invested for retirement. There is a lot to consider when it comes to retirement planning. For me, it is hard to imagine slowing down. What does grab my attention is the amount of money I will need to have at the time I do want to slow down and retire.
After working in the financial planning profession for 15 years and working with many women and couples on their financial journeys, I know that women typically have different needs and challenges when it comes to money.
One of the financial planning areas that women often forget, but need to particularly pay attention to, is estate planning. An Estate plan is the legal planning that helps you control who will inherit your money and property, and who can make medical and financial decisions on your behalf if you can’t.