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Becoming financially savvy can change a woman’s life. It empowers her to be more self-sufficient, make smart decisions and deal with any financial calamity.
Women have made remarkable strides over time and have gained social and professional positions. They have come a long way when it comes to their roles at work and their family. Yet most of them do not feel thoroughly prepared, when it comes to finance.
As social norms and family structures are changing, financial decision-making is no longer the sole domain of the male breadwinner. Now, it’s imperative for woman to take charge of the finance.
This necessitates the need for women to build their financial literacy. Becoming more financially savvy can change a woman’s life. It empowers her to be self-sufficient, make confident decisions and alleviates her to deal with any dire financial situation.
Therefore, it is essential that women should acquaint themselves with the knowledge of finance. Gaining knowledge would require minimal time, effort and motivation. But it can build up to huge significant results, thus ensuring a healthy financial life. This education can foster her to lead an influential and affluential life as mentioned:
Investing our time in educating ourselves is the key to achieving economic and social equality. By understanding how to manage personal finance, we would be able to make informed economic decisions over the course of our life. This will lift up, our status in the society as well as enable us to match up with the male section of the society as far as financial decisions are concerned.
A woman who supports her family financially, emotionally, socially and so on, acts as an epitome of inspiration for her children. By educating our self about financial management, we set as an example for our kids. Children perceive and comprehend about taking up of financial responsibilities and gets inspired to be self-reliant in life.
A financially literate woman can place good ideas and options to tackle debts and set goals to manage them. Sound knowledge of debt management can aid us to plan our repayment schedules, credit card debts that fit into our budget. Proper management of debts enables to live a financially secured and stable life.
The unpredictability of life requires prior preparation. This demands an understanding of savings, investments, emergency funds and the like. Every woman, earning or not, has the habit of saving. These savings can be wisely invested to channelize the modes of wealth creation. The knowledge about savings can help to cope with rainy days and investments can assist to attain a comfortable life.
Financially literate women have the tools to grow their wealth and use those assets to contribute to causes for which they have been planned for. Even small increase in regular investments can substantially improve our portfolio size and the longevity of our assets.
In a nutshell, every woman should widen her horizons and must strive to acquire financial knowledge. It’s important to note that women’s empowerment is incomplete without financial independence.
Financial literacy is the road we need to travel to achieve a healthy financial well- being. Ensure to build a personal safety net in the form of financial security around you!
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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