Challenge Financial Gaps and Improve Financial Health

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions — all day, every day.” IWD

Each year, International Women’s Day (IWD) is recognized worldwide on March 8th, to:

• Celebrate the cultural, economic, political, and social achievements of women
• Shine a light on women’s equality
• Focus on accelerating gender parity
• Raise funds for charities geared toward helping females

IWD’s campaign theme for 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. It reminds us here at Women Who Money to challenge societal financial gender gaps and our individual “financial gaps,” too.

Gender gaps are the result of unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender. Gender gaps are just one of many ways that discrimination manifests itself. Still, they can have a significant impact on the financial well-being of women.

We won’t erase these economic gaps overnight. Yet, we can take steps every day to raise awareness about them, object when we witness them, improve our own finances to narrow some of them, and help others do the same.

A gender-equal society needs empowered women and girls who take control of their lives, make their own…