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Investing is an important skill to learn especially for women. Sadly, investment education is neglected in our schools. So what can we women do? Gain knowledge and skills to invest and manage our money the best we can.

Investing Benefits for Women

What benefits of women investing can you name?

Sandra,
I enjoyed reading this article. I was not taught about the importance of managing my finances or investing in school or at home. I'm thinking many young people aren't.

Excellent advice Sandra. I think one benefit for women who learn about investing is they will gain self-confidence in their financial lives and that will spread over into other aspects of their lives.

Ilyssa,
You make a good point. Many families fail to discuss money management. I was fortunate that my parents guided me. In fact, my mom suggested I take a course in high school on basic money skills. This would have been things like balancing a checkbook, etc. Well, the course was only taught the second half of the school year so I took a course on craft making the first half. This was the only course to fit my schedule and still take the money skills class. And I did truly enjoy the craft class. However, when the second half of the year arrived, guess what? The school cancelled the money skills class and instead offered a second craft class.

I never got a chance to take the money skills class. I loved the craft classes, but I think the school missed an excellent opportunity to enrich its students with money management skills. The emphasis seemed to be on making more money, but not what to do with it once you earned that money.

Trish,

An excellent point. Knowing how to handle money has certainly helped my self-confidence in other areas.

I guess we say to ourselves: I learned to and can manage my money so I can learn to manage this other thing/skill, etc.