7 billion neighbors

Where does women's money go?

Audio 48:30

Do women spend exclusively on themselves?

RFI/Pierre René-Worms

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Child care, beauty products... In many respects women seem to spend more than men.

Prejudices or not, women's relationship to money is indeed taboo.

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Considered frivolous when they spend it, venal when they seek it, difficult to find the right balance.

Looking at the numbers, money does indeed seem to be a male prerogative.   

Globally, only 65% ​​of women had a bank account compared to 72% of men according to the World Bank.

Yet, even with persistent wage inequalities, women's money exists, especially and for the home.

How do they spend?

What is their view of money?

Are there really gender-related uses?   

With

 :

- Lucile Quillet

, freelance journalist, author of

The price to pay – what the straight couple costs women (Editions Les liens qui liberating, 2021)

- Héloïse Bolle

, wealth management advisor, founder of

Oseille et compagnie

.

Author of

Good accounts make good lovers (Lecherche-midi, 2019)

Musical programming

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 Woman don't eat my money

- Mister Johnny

Independent Women

 - Destinys Child

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