Getting Your Financial Life In Balance

Financial Freedom
Take it from Suze Orman: Almost all of us have, at some level, fears or anxieties about money. Looking these fears in the eye is an essential step toward freedom—financial freedom. Do you want to take this first step?

Working Mothers: Challenges and Changes
Over 70% of women with young children are engaged in paid labor. Statistics show that on average, men earn 25% more than women. The largest portion of the wage disparity between men and women is attributable to employed mothers.

Financial Planning: Don’t Let Your Wheel Of Fortune Go Flat
Don't wait until your wheel of fortune goes flat. Take care of your finances now to ensure that you won't be stranded later on down the road.

The Possible Retirement Dream
How to Beat Your Money to the Exit
Studies show 74% of the elderly poor are women, yet only 46% of women have begun to save or invest for retirement.

How Much Do I Need to Retire?
Women: You are going to live longer, actuarially, than men, so be prepared.

Coach, Counselor or Mentor - How They Differ - Which is Right for You
Coaches are action oriented.They will urge you to focus on the present and the future, to set realistic goals, to overcome obstacles that might get in your way, and to practice effective behaviors in the here and now.

Don't Hesitate To Ask
There are people in a position to help, no matter what the issue. There are experts. Making decisions in isolation is usually not the best way, although for some people it may be the most comfortable.

Right-Sizing, Right Now for the Pro-Active Senior
Difficult and often agonizing, it’s the crossroad every senior dreads, the time when it’s necessary to consider abandoning the comfort of the familiar for a more practical, age-appropriate living scenario.

Successful Negotiation

Listening to Women: New Perspectives on Negotiation
Negotiation is the way that business gets done today. And women—the newest entrants to the business world—have powerful insights into the negotiation processes needed in today’s fast-paced environment.

Negotiate Your Way to Success
Negotiation is a word that conjures up images of boardrooms, power plays and attorneys. We often find ourselves intimidated by the very concept of negotiation, and we’re overwhelmed before we begin. But, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Learning to Ask
Our studies show that women are much less likely than men to use negotiation to get ahead and get what they want. All the negotiation advice in the world is useless if you never get to the bargaining table in the first place.Learn to ask!

Success in Sales: 5 Ways to Eliminate Gender as a Factor
As sales professionals, women often face unfounded gender bias when competing for business in the boardrooms of America. When encountering Senior Executives as prospects, your objective is to move the sales process forward, while not allowing any preconceived gender bias to get in the way of your success.

Considering Getting Off The Corporate Ladder?
If You Want To Be A Consultant - 10 Secrets for Success
If you’re considering leaving the safety net of a steady paycheck and venturing into the world of consulting: working in your jammies, playing tennis every morning, and of course, the chance to triple your income. All these options can become your reality if you know the 10 secrets to success and the pitfalls to avoid.

Budgeting

Budgeting- The "B" Word
Prepare To Balance The Budget
Are you tired of asking your bank account to give you more than it has to give? Today is the day that the torture becomes history. Take up your pencil and prepare to balance the budget.

Captain Your Investments

Women and Investing
Be the Captain of Your Financial Life
According to the National Center for Women and Retirement Research, as many as 9 out of 10 women will be solely responsible for their finances at some point in their lives. The consequences of such circumstances can financially cripple many women.

Salary

Blaming Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument sounds reasonable. However, a closer look reveals that the language of “choice” obscures larger social forces that maintain the wage gap and the very real constraints under which women labor.

Confronting the Gender Gap in Wages
Women are winning the numbers game in the workforce. They now fill almost half of the country’s managerial jobs. Despite equal representation among the ranks of wage earners, however, women continue to come up short in their paychecks.

The Gender Wage Gap: Debunking the Rationalizations
Higher levels of education increase women’s earnings, just as they do for men. However, there is no evidence that the gender gap in wages closes at higher levels of education. If anything, the reverse is true: at the very highest levels of education, the gap is at its largest.

Gender Wage Gap: Are you paid as much as a man if he had your job?
Women working full time still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. If you’re a woman, what would you do with that extra 23 cents—an increase of nearly one-third on top of your current 77-cent paycheck—a raise that brought you up even with men?