Women Finance

Abby is a high flyer. But she's not your average banker. Driven by something other than money and status, she has her own reasons for climbing the ladder. And so does Mike. An ambitious young graduate with an equally impressive CV, Mike is in it for the six-figure salaries and fast cars. He's got the skills, the grades and the swagger to make it all the way to the top. Based on the author's experiences as a junior investment banker, Golden Handcuffs is a fresh, gripping insight into life inside a Wall Street bank and what it really means to sell your soul to the City.

Ladies, are you tired of barely scraping by each month? Want to break free of debt, save for the future, and build real wealth? Financial literacy is power - and this book puts it directly within your reach. Packed with 500 practical tips to transform your money mindset, crush bad money habits, and take control of your financial destiny, 500 Tips for Financial Literacy for Women is your key to unlocking financial freedom.

Money is the third person in any marriage, but unlike your ex, money will be with you forever. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and confused about handling money on your own after a divorce, you’re not alone. Christine Luken, Founder of the Financial Dignity® Movement, writes not just from a place of expertise but also personal experience. After guiding countless women to a place of financial security and independence, Christine has compiled those success stories with a step-by-step process for women to effectively manage both their emotions and their money.

Frauen machen Karriere, gründen Unternehmen, haben Führungsverantwortung, erziehen Kinder und übernehmen Verantwortung für die Familie. Frauen sind stark darin, sich um das Wohl anderer zu kümmern. Die eigenen Bedürfnisse und Interessen kommen dabei oft zu kurz – besonders, wenn es um das Thema Geld geht. Allzu oft noch sind Finanzen eine reine Männerdomäne und viel zu viele Frauen überlassen auch heute noch ihre finanzielle Absicherung voll und ganz ihrem Partner. Viele Frauen trauen sich schlicht nicht zu, sich um Aktien & Co. zu kümmern.

In this transformational book, Mark A. Parks, Jr. lays out a detailed, step-by-step plan that anyone can use to be a true winner in her financial life. He reveals his discoveries from interviewing hundreds of women wanting to help other women by sharing stories about real life challenges and opportunities women have with financial success through money management and investing. Here, in simple language, are foolproof techniques for achieving financial wellness and success while gaining genuine inner peace by dealing with one of the most stressful areas of life, money management.

For the top-earning woman, the rules are different. She faces a much higher risk for burnout, infidelity, and divorce. In this highly practical audiobook, financial guru and media star Farnoosh Torabi - a breadwinner herself - presents a bold strategy that not only addresses how income imbalances affect relationships and family dynamics, but also how a woman can best manage (and take advantage of) this unique circumstance - emotionally, socially, and financially.

Broke and creeping toward burnout after fellowship training, Dr. Latifat Akintade refused to relinquish control of her professional future. She transformed her finances and founded MoneyFitMD School, equipping women physicians with the knowledge they need to eliminate debt and live a joy-filled life. In Done With Broke, Dr. Akintade explains the principles of financial management for physicians, showing how to break free from the cycle of overworking and overspending to stop worrying and live the life you want.

Looking at life, how do you think you fared? Financially are you prepared? Our Financial Development is a lifetime journey. As we go through life celebrating work, family, and play, we are continuously facing financial decisions. With each decision, we take a step down a road that will eventually lead us into a future that was once just a thought and is now... a reality.

Whether you’re hoping to obtain a raise from your boss, convince an insurance claim representative to reimburse your medical treatment, or persuade your spouse into spending less time watching TV and more time with you, Winning Every Time will be your guide for truly practical and helpful...

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track. On the Internet, “information wants to be...

Get Rich, Don’t Bitch “I don’t have time to deal with my money.” “Managing money and investing is too intimidating.” “I’m not a numbers person.” “My husband takes care of our finances.” “I’m just not good with money.” Jean Chatzky has heard all the excuses for why...

Life changes on the way to happily ever after, doesn't it? I mean, sometimes you don't even see it coming until one day you wake up and say, "Wait-this is not where I was supposed to end up!" It doesn't matter if you got divorced, got fat, got fired, got sick, or just got stuck-you can always...

Financial security begins with a conversation . . . And that’s why Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz has teamed up with her father, internationally respected investing pioneer and bestselling author Charles R. Schwab, to produce this excellent family financial primer. This book will help investors...

Kellogg in the late 1940s and 50s was a typical American small town complete with high school football and basketball teams, marching band, and anti-Communist clubs; yet its bars, gambling dens, and brothels were entrenched holdovers from a rowdier frontier past. The Bunker Hill Mining Company, the largest employer, paid miners good wages for difficult, dangerous work, while the quest for lead, silver, and zinc denuded the mountainsides and laced the soil and water with contaminants.

A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy shows how this reality will transform the sexual, dating, marriage, and work habits of men and women worldwide. This flip in the economic order is inevitable, and Mundy demonstrates why it will also be a good thing for individuals and families. Both sexes will be free for the first time to make purely romantic choices - ones that have nothing to do with marriage as an economic partnership.

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.

For many women in their 20s and 30s, the greatest professional hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still subject to a "parenting penalty", and high-profile conflicts between parenting and the workplace are all over the news, from the controversy over companies covering the costs of egg freezing to the debate over parental leave and child care inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's two-month paternity leave.

Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit away from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you’re wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it.

Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home.

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts.