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A failure to understand personal finance is disproportionately a woman’s problem, leading to poverty and credit card debt. Some teens are using those facts to scare up participation in workshops on saving and investing.
The new financial regulatory overhaul is designed to protect consumers, but a 2005 bankruptcy law that can be particularly impoverishing for divorced women has been left intact.
Margot Wallström starts March 1 her two-year stint as special U.N. representative on ending conflict-zone sexual violence. She says she’ll be going right away to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a global epicenter of mass rape.
Helping women gain financial strength while they transition away from their abusers is receiving a new focus from advocates who work with survivors of domestic violence.