Financial Literacy is a Superpower Every Girl Should Have

Six Insights From Career Girls Role Models

Series Note: Career Girls founder and CEO Linda Calhoun shares insights distilled from her in-depth interviews of over 700 women role models — each article devoted to exploring the skills and attitudes that advance girls’ intellectual, social and emotional learning for success in both life and career. This article focuses on financial literacy and emphasizes the all-important connections to soft skills, such as responsibility, discipline and problem-solving.

Saving, Banking, Smart Spending and Investments

A girl’s ability to understand how money works is the foundation of being able to provide for her own future. Helping girls and young women understand the difference between “wants” versus “needs” is a big part of learning about finances.

How can you help a girl understand the importance and relevance of financial literacy? Our Career Girls Role Models offer facts, life lessons, advice and tips to break it down and help you initiate talks about money and financial literacy.

One: Money Means Independence

Explain how financial literacy sets girls on the path to independence and gives them the skills to…