Wednesday, September 29, 2010

LearnVest Connects Financial Literacy to a New Generation of Women

"The LearnVest team is adopting ideas from the likes of Weight Watchers and DailyCandy to help young women improve their fiscal fitness."

This was noteworthy:
In major U.S. cities, women in their twenties are out-earning their male counterparts -- the gap is as much as 17% in New York and 20% in Dallas. And yet, when dealing with money musts such as staying out of debt and planning for retirement, many young women have no idea where to start.
Read the rest of the FastCompany blogpost here.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .