Dear Moneyist, I live with my 65-year-old widowed mother and my two adolescent daughters, who are 11 and 13 years old. My father gave me half of the ownership of the house when he died. My mom is dating a 75-year-old man who lives nearby at a retirement home. MyRead More →
Elizabeth Giorgi was used to pitching her company to all-male teams of venture capitalists. Her Denver, Colo.-based company, Soona, specializes in shooting photographs and video, and delivering the results the same day. She recently landed funding from a male VC. Giorgi said she shared her dreams and vision for makingRead More →
The impeachment inquiry’s latest star witness served up a handy reminder that professional women’s anger isn’t always “fully appreciated.” Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official and Russia expert, made the point during Thursday’s hearing in response to a question from Republican counsel Steve Castor. Castor referenced testimony fromRead More →
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The tax code is ‘not race and gender neutral’ according to new research. If you’re physically hurt on the job, the Internal Revenue Service generally won’t touch the worker’s compensation or legal settlement you receive. But if your boss harasses you, makes comments aboutRead More →
‘Women’s brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup so it’s hard for them to focus. Men’s brains are more like waffles. They’re better able to focus because the information collects in each little waffle square.’ That little nugget came from an Ernst & Young training session, not in 1952,Read More →
Most people are comfortable with skimping on tipping their Uber driver. That’s the conclusion of a working paper released this week, co-authored by University of Chicago economist John List and published by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. Uber customers tip on just 16% ofRead More →
Happy Wednesday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Harvard discrimination ruling suggests high schools may hinder Asian-American applicants Ruling says teachers’ and guidance counselors’ weaker personal recommendations may hurt Asian-American applicants’ chances. Male surgeons are paid more than female surgeons, even in fields like gynecology Women also hadRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I have watched my sister-in-law maneuver her way through various romantic relationships for gain. Her prizes were everything from boob jobs and cars to homes. She is a selfish, gold-digging, greedy woman. It floored me that men could be so stupid. Especially wealthy men! But they were. Sigh!Read More →
Happy Thursday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance This is why loneliness and dating apps are such a bad match New research highlights what people likely to become addicted to apps like Tinder and Hinge have in common. Parents are spending hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars decorating theirRead More →
Women have hit a new milestone. The number of college-educated women in the workforce edged out the number of college-educated men in 2019, according to an analysis published Thursday by the Pew Research Center. There were 29.5 million women with a bachelor’s degree in the workforce, as of the first-quarterRead More →
The Women’s World Cup soccer team has the world at their feet. Everyone, it seems, except the men who pay the prize money at the governing body FIFA. The winning American team will receive a maximum of $200,000 each in prize money, including all other prizes along the way, comparedRead More →
Roy Moore, the polarizing Republican judge who lost a U.S. Senate race in a bitter 2017 special election, said Thursday he’s planning to run again in 2020. Senate Republicans greeted the news with a collective eye roll, with Arizona’s Sen. Martha McSally dropping the zinger of the day to Politico:Read More →
The experience of repaying student loans is unpleasant for millions of graduates, but for some borrowers, paying off student debt is an almost insurmountable challenge. Twelve years after entering college, white men have paid off 44% of their student-loan balance on average, according to an analysis released Thursday by Demos,Read More →
Denise Dudley, a business consultant based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has traveled a lot for her career over the last four decades. She has taken business trips that have lasted for weeks, many with senior male colleagues. In those early days, she learned a lot from both her maleRead More →
Getty Images ‘When the victim arrived at the location, they were beaten, robbed and carjacked at gunpoint by several masked suspects,’ the San Jose police said in a statement. Swipe right with caution. Police in San Jose, Calif. arrested five people for allegedly staging a series of armed robberies, assaultsRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Viacom logo is displayed on the doors of a building in midtown Manhattan in New York (Reuters) – Viacom Inc, the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, beat quarterly profit estimates on Friday, as costs fell and its Paramount Pictures division gained from theRead More →
My previous post on the idea of allowing workers to buy cheap inflation-indexed annuities through Social Security with some of their 401(k) holdings raised a question: would men and women get the same monthly benefit for their premium as under private sector defined-benefit plans or different amounts as occurs todayRead More →
Women appear to be more selective in their job hunting than men. Women are 16% more successful than men at landing a job after applying, and 18% more likely than men to be hired when applying for more senior roles, according to LinkedIn’s new Gender Insights report. One explanation forRead More →
