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Article: What women can teach men about money: women have different, and sometimes better, attitudes than men.
- Article from:
- Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
- Author:
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This is a story that shouldn't have to be written. After all, men and women need the same financial advice and information: how to pick a stock, invest in mutual funds, plan for retirement - you name it. To single out either sex for special treatment seems redundant at best, patronizing at worst.
Except for one little thing. In their financial perceptions and circumstances, as in so many other things, men and women are, well, different.
When it comes to finances, studies show, women are more critical of themselves and less confident of their ability than are men.
* Given $10,000, women are less likely than men to invest the money with a ...