Money Order : The Money Management Guide for Women
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Thirty or forty years ago, most women depended on a weekly allowance from their husbands to run the household and care for children. Although today's women share the breadwinning with their husbands or support families on their incomes alone, their money management skills simply haven't kept pace with their earning power. It's time for women to embrace a new paradigm, doing away with the notion that control of finances is a man's job.
Like no other book on personal finance, Money Order offers a new model for managing your money, one that reflects women's constantly changing money needs and helps you develop real financial savvy and resourcefulness. Based on Womankind's grassroots Financial Literacy Project, Money Order covers all the basics, including how to
But it doesn't stop there. Packed with insider tips from women financial experts, as well as real-life stories, exercises, and useful charts and graphs, Money Order is a comprehensive primer that teaches you to treat your money as your greatest asset -- not as an endless burden.
Once you have your day-to-day financial life on track, this book will provide you with new options to save, spend, and invest your money. Money Order encourages you to share your financial knowledge with other women and to make meaningful investments that will effect real economic change in your life and the lives of others.
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Written by professional women who serve as instructors at Womankind, a Boston-based collective dedicated to the ideals of feminist egalitarian economics, this valuable handbook not only covers financial basics but shows how financially savvy women can effect real changes in society. It is packed with straightforward information, as well as real-life stories, exercises, and useful charts and graphs, designed to help women change the way they think about and manage their money. It explores such important areas as: -- Establishing and maintaining credit -- Choosing a health plan -- Making major purchases -- Insuring themselves and their property -- Preparing for retirement -- Negotiating what you have to get what you need -- Investing resources with an eye to personal satisfaction and community benefits Like Our Bodies, Ourselves, Money Order has its roots in an innovative organization that works with women of all ages, backgrounds, and economic levels. It provides women with the essential tools to become financially independent and to redress social inequalities through targeted philanthropy and other economic initiatives.
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Money Order : The Money Management Guide for Women
Money Order : The Money Management Guide for Women,Gail Shapiro,Fireside,0684870983,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Consumer Finance,Finance, Personal,Personal Finance,Personal Finance - General,Personal Finance - Money Management,Women,Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management
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