5 important financial steps you should take if you’re a woman in your 20s Jill Gianola and Margaret Price share ways young women can make their money work harder for them.

Why women save less than men One of the biggest reasons women save less than men is that they earn less money to save.

Solution: Kingsbury suggests starting a women-and-money club or a female-only investing group to start talking about finance. No. 4: Good Girl Syndrome.

A new Pew Research Center report finds that in opposite-sex marriages in the U.S., women's financial contributions have grown, but they're still doing a larger share of housework and caregiving.