DailyWorth CEO Amanda Steinberg is helping women shrink the wealth gap
When she reached her early thirties, Amanda Steinberg was frustrated to realize that her net worth was negligible— despite a lucrative career in computer programming. A search for guidance proved equally frustrating: The women’s magazines she usually read focused more on controlling spending than building wealth, and sites like MarketWatch and Yahoo Finance were full of photos of men and assumed a level of knowledge she lacked. “It’s been a man’s job to think about long-term financial planning,” she says. And it shows: The Asset Funders Network reports that single women have 32 cents for every dollar of wealth owned by single men.
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INTELLIGENT IMPACT
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Campus Radicals
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