They get a few years older, and they realize that men won't carry them through life. The growing number of investment clubs that exclude men has caught the attention of Germany's women's magazines, which half-jokingly tout the advantages of intuition over analysis. We do our homework, and I've been told women are more conservative than men. Metzler Investment's surveys seem to bear out the conservatism. U.S. experience indicates the respondents may be right.
Men simply do so more often.
That's when we realized this was more serious. Although making money is important to them, learning how to make it has even more value. Still, it's always nice to show the men up now and again. Czech governments delayed the necessary restructuring of the country's banking system. 2001 Time Inc. All rights reserved.