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The TRUTH About Women & Money

13 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, a woman reflects on the gendered double standard surrounding financial discussions. She contrasts her husband's frequent, informal investment and deal‑making calls with the absence of similar money talks among her female friends, attributing the gap to a lingering stigma that deems women talking about money as "gross." She recounts being chastised on a panel titled "Women, Power and Money" for speaking about money “too much,” highlighting how even spaces meant to empower women can police financial discourse. The speaker argues that avoiding such subjects only reinforces the barrier and stresses the importance of self‑advocacy: individuals must actively ask for what they deserve rather than waiting for others to provide it. The overall message is a call to break the silence, normalize financial conversations among women, and take ownership of one's financial agency.

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I have a husband who's in business and he sits on the phone to his guys and they chat and they tell each other like what, you know, they're investing in and what money they're putting in the market and what crypto thing to do and how they paid this lawyer and this like deal that they did to structure for the house before they had the money. And I'm literally sitting there going, I don't have one of those calls with any of my girlfriends. Why not? Because still there is some stigma attached to the way that we think about money. And somehow it's like Ew, like she's gross. She said money like 20 times. I write in the book that I did a panel and this wonderful, incredible woman said to me, Emma darling, you really speak about money too much. And I was like, but the name of the panel is Women, Power and Money. What are you talking about? You know? And so I don't think that we should avoid subjects when that's exactly what we want. Yeah. Right? I think that we have to put ourselves in line to get what we are owed. And I don't expect expect that anybody is coming to save me, that anybody's going to pluck me from obscurity and go, here's the thing that you want. It never happened to me like that. So if you don't ask, you don't get. 100%.