What Miss Utah Should’ve Said About The Pay Gap
By now, you’ve probably heard or seen the garbled answer Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, gave to this question during Sunday’s the Miss USA pageant: A recent report shows that in…
7 Tips For Breadwinner Wives Feeling The Strain
This past weekend, two close friends visited my husband and me at our Virginia countryside cottage. This married couple is roughly our age – 50s – and, like us, don’t…
The 5 Money Lessons I Learned From My Father
One day in the early 1960s, my dad arrived home from his Pittsburgh engineering and consulting firm and brought along a beautiful English leather saddle. He put it on the…
Has Your Credit Report Cost You A Job?
The job market has been tough for older workers, but did you ever imagine that you wouldn’t land a job because of your credit report? It’s possible. As I wrote…
Employers Penalizing Spouses For Health Insurance
Here’s a dose of medicine women might not want to swallow: It’s getting more expensive for a wife to get health insurance through her husband’s plan. Employers, it seems, are…
11 Essential Money Tips for New College Grads
When my nephew Michael walked across the graduation stage at Wake Forest University last week to pick up his bachelor of science diploma, I wasn’t worried about his financial future.…
How I Slash Retirement Account Fees: A D-I-Y Target Date Fund
I watched the disturbing Frontline documentary on PBS, The Retirement Gamble, and not surprisingly, I got to thinking about the fees I pay for investing in my retirement accounts. On…
Taxes and Divorce: 6 Tips for Women
My hairdresser was a mess last week. As she washed, rinsed and snipped my locks, she talked nonstop about her taxes. She’s in her early 50s, with a child living…
4 Stay-Cool Strategies For Today’s Hot Stock Market
It’s been a pretty gleeful gallop for U.S. stock market investors lately. That’s why I’ve been asking my girlfriends in their 50s and 60s whether the wow Dow had led…
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Sheryl Sandberg’s 5 Best ‘Lean In’ Tips For Women
Oh, my goodness. Talk about stirring up a flap. You’ve no doubt heard that Sheryl Sandberg, the 43-year-old chief operating officer atFacebook and formerGoogle executive, has written a provocative, buzzy…
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