Money - why women need to talk about money
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Woman’s Hour talks about money. Over their lives, women earn less and save less than men – and, very often, find they need more of it. Research consistently suggests that women are less likely to talk about personal finances or to seek financial advice, but far more likely to worry about it than men. We look at how we manage our relationship with money and, at what our relationships can do to our cash-flow. And, we ask what part the government, work places and financial intuitions can play in building our financial resilience and reducing gender inequality. From student debt to pensions; buying a home to saving for a pension; the costs of paying for care or doing the caring – and, the gender pay gap - we examine where things go wrong and, how we might begin to fix them.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts Interviewed guest: Fran Bennett Interviewed guest: Amy Cashman Interviewed guest: Jude Kelly Interviewed guest: Sarah Pennells Interviewed guest: Lucy Tobin
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| 0:36.3 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour Podcasts |
| 0:39.9 | for Thursday the 8th of August. |
| 0:43.1 | Today we're talking about the subject, |
| 0:44.7 | very few of us are prepared to talk about money. |
| 0:47.9 | Why are so many women scared of the one subject |
| 0:51.3 | that if we took it seriously, any good time, would make us financially |
| 0:55.3 | independent and not living in fear of a poverty-stricken old age. |
| 1:00.1 | How do we avoid losing money if we have children or a relationship comes to a close? |
| 1:06.0 | Why do so many of us manage the family budget but don't take control of the finances as a whole? |
| 1:12.0 | And then pensions, how can you get the best deal to enjoy |
| 1:16.5 | a comfortable retirement? Well with me are Amy Cashman, one of the chief executives of Kanta's Insight Division, Lucy Tobin, who covers the city for the evening |
| 1:27.5 | standard and is the author of being an adult. Fran Bennett, a member of the Women's Budget Group and academic in Oxford University's |
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