In Chapter 1 of Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny, Suze Orman brings up a very relevant point about the evolution of women’s work. We work now, but come from a social paradigm where working and having money is new. If you think in a historical context women have never had money of our own because we weren’t allowed to work. We kept house. Husbands and fathers kept us. Obviously things have changed and now we have access to an empowering amount of our own money.
But, she says that we haven’t yet learned what to do …read more

By Tracee Sioux
I run a women’s book club, Between the Covers, and this month (and probably August) we’re doing Suze Orman’s Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.
I confess I was financially illiterate until I took Dave Ramsey’s course Financial Peace University. It was a fantastic course that put a lot of financial issues into perspective for us.
I want to read Orman’s book because I think there are issues that deal with money that are specific to women and girls. She looks at our emotional issues and how that translates into how we handle money and whether …read more