She spent college as one of four girls in a room, stitching her own wardrobe from discounted fabrics and budgeting pennies on Friday nights. Still, to this day, debt is one subject that wipes a smile off her face. It remains her biggest motivator. Especially for women.'' For women. More than half of all marriages end in divorce.
Women are three times as likely as men to run a household alone.
The average age of widowhood is 56. For a quarter of those women, death benefits last only two more months. Women, she said, need to know how to stand on their own Roth IRAs. And so, in 1985 she ventured into the unfamiliar terrain of finances. Her first step was to meet with brokers.