Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee, All the Best. All across the globe and routinely

throughout human history, women's financial activities have been restricted. We've been denied

ownership of our property. We've been denied our earnings. We've been paid at lower wages and

restricted from positions of financial leadership.

And still today in the United States of America, countless women are being underpaid or encouraged

not to work and not to manage their finances at all, instead vesting that power in the men

whom we've been taught to defer to when it comes to the quote-unquote masculine subject of money.

With systems like these in place for not just decades, but for centuries or even millennia,

how can there be any question that patriarchy is contorting our financial reality?

Long-time listeners know that this is a topic that we've explored before,

but with money looming so largely in our lives and consistently intersecting with systems

of oppression, I've been wanting to dig deeper into really understanding patriarchy's impact

on our bank accounts and learn what we can do about it. And so I'm very excited to be discussing these topics

today with the author of the book, The Child Free Guide to Life and Money, Dr. Jay Zygmont.

Welcome, Jay. Thanks for having me. This is going to be a fun conversation.

Jay Zygmont, Ph.D., MBA, and CFP, is the founder of Child Free Wealth, a life and financial planning firm dedicated

to helping child-free and permanently childless people. Child-free wealth is the first and currently

the only life and financial planning firm dedicated to serving child-free people. Jay is also

the author of the forthcoming book, The Child Free Guide to Life and Money, and the co-host

of the Child Free Wealth podcast. His PhD was in adult learning from the University of Connecticut,

and he's been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Market Watch, The Wall Street Journal, the New York

Times, Business Insider, CNBC, and many other publications. So that's awesome.

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