The Best Personal Finance Books For Women
And why we often need different advice than men do
First of all, why do women need different personal finance books than men? If you’re asking that, it’s a perfectly valid question. Money doesn’t care about gender. And if you’re a woman you can absolutely read all the same personal finance books your husband, dad, or brother does.
As I heard some TikToker announce the other day:
Anything a man can do, a woman can do — while holding two kids and bleeding.
However, with money — as with so much else — if we ignore gender completely we’re ignoring centuries of social history, patterns passed down from generation to generation, and a social landscape where women are still statistically more likely to earn less, invest less, retire with less, and generally be encouraged to take less responsibility for their own finances.
So yes, if you’re a woman, it may be worth looking at personal finance from a different perspective. Let’s take a look at a few books that will help.
Women & Money by Suze Orman
I’ve been listening to the new, updated, version of this one on Audible. Suze Orman was one of the original female finance gurus, rising to fame with TV appearances on Oprah, and other high profile…
