Women are more involved with day-to-day household finances than ever before but most are still not planning for retirement and other major life goals. This is the finding of a recently published Prudential Financial’s 10th anniversary study on the “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women” . The report showed that 95 percent of women are involved in household financial decisions, with a quarter acting as primary decision-makers. At the same time, however, 64 percent of those surveyed say they still have more work to do to secure their financial futures. While the Prudential Study...

My friend and her husband are getting divorced: three small children and irreconcilable differences. He is a partner at a law firm and earns $800,000 per year. She is a stay-at-home mother. After the divorce, who will pay more for health insurance? As regressive as it may seem, my unemployed single mother friend will pay more for healthcare than her law-partner ex even though they are the same age and both in good health. She will either go on COBRA and pay 102 percent of her husband’s employer’s healthcare plan charge while her husband’s healthcare bill will remain subsidized by his employer...

Michelle Obama is arguably the most visible mother in America. She professed on the campaign trail that her children are the last thing she thinks about before bed and the first thing she thinks about when she wakes up in the morning. How many mothers can relate to that?

Health education is required at my children’s schools. Personal, physical, sexual, and even environmental health is all part of the curriculum. But what about financial health? While some high schools offer elective courses in investments and banking, most do not. The assumption is that kids will learn about money along the way and that their parents will guide them.

I'm a self-proclaimed optimist and hopeful about the "yes, we can" message emanating from Washington. But I felt as if I'd been kicked in the gut last week when I read a New York Times article by Robert Pear about price gauging in health policies for women.