finance

Programmes of financial education for women have a number of positive benefits for them, for their families and for their countries. Interview with the Ocse consultant Sue Lewis

Is your own country completely different from Greece, or isn't it?

A simple self-administered Economic Greekness Test puts your mind at rest

Many women need to be remainded of the financial basis of their personal indepencence. But once they understand, they do not trust easily in mainstream promises of the financial industry.

From the summer of 2012 the political situation will be one of extreme polarisation between two new players: in opposition will be a bloc deeply hostile to reform and identifying it as an infringement of national independence. And a governing coalition of parties whose main objective is to remain within the euro, accompanied by a (reluctant) understanding that the price for that is a programme of reforms demanded by creditors

Men and women are different, but we are not nearly as different as those literatures would have us believe. The crucial gender angle has to do, instead, with the sorts of behaviors we have come to believe are acceptable - or even inevitable - in the realms of business and finance.

The banking crisis in Iceland has different effects for men and women

Women are the lorers of the Uk budget

The effects of the crisis on Greek women’s lives