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Personal finance expert Jean Chatzky warns women: ‘We are sabotaging our financial security’

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On the eve of International Women’s Day, personal finance journalist Jean Chatzky says she worries about a paradox at the heart of women’s investing habits: Women are better at investing than their male counterparts, but they prefer to stash their money, exposing them to greater financial risk. Chatzky says women tend to be more cautious with money than men, but that caution can backfire.
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How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

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The stressed-out, hair-pulling, kitchen-disaster, screaming-children, sleep-deprived but otherwise successful professional working mom has ventured into trope territory. If you’ve seen the I Don’t Know How She Does It film or read the Allison Pearson novel, you know. But Laura Vanderkam, author of the new time-management book for women, I Know How She Does It  (see what she did there?) says that depiction is fiction and that she has the data to prove it. She also has advice for other professional women on how they can make the most of their time — and still have a good life. For h
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Female entrepreneurs too reluctant to brag about business prowess

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Female entrepreneurs are failing to shout about their achievements despite generating higher profits than their male counterparts, according to a landmark study. The Psychology of Entrepreneurs report found that 42pc of successful businesswomen claim that their business is prospering, compared to 62pc of males. This despite the fact that female entrepreneurs are significantly better organised, more extraverted, more competitive and more emotionally stable than men. The report, which surveyed almost 1,000 business owners, also found that women showed greater entre