Women's Equality Day: Baby, We Need To Do More With Our Money
Today is Women's Equality Day, which commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. You can thank hat-wearing icon Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) for nudging Congress to make it official in 1971.
While there have certainly been gains on many fronts (ahem, women are better investors than men!), unfortunately, we still earn only about 80 percent of what men are paid. There's no doubt that women need to control their financial lives--here's why:
