Mar 02, 2025

Celebrating Women's History Month 2025

Women's History Month commemorates and celebrates the contributions of women in U.S. history. Check out these NGPF resources to help you get your classroom discussing the financial and professional accomplishments women have made as well as the challenges they continue to face.

 

Questions of the Day

Do women or men tend to be better investors?

When were women first able to get credit cards without a co-signer?

In what year were women in the U.S. first enabled to get a business loan without the signature of a male relative?

How did Madam CJ Walker become one of the first American women to be a self-made millionaire?

Whitney Wolfe Herd became the youngest self-made woman billionaire when she took what company public in February 2021?

By how much has Taylor Swift impacted the brand value of the Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL?

What is the first company to go public led by two female co-founders?

 

FinCap Friday Videos

Financially Confident Women

More Fairness in Finance

Girl Math Causes a Big Wrath

 

Video Library

This is Not Financial Advice: Women in Finance

 

Resources

Highlighting Women Mathematicians in the Classroom by NGPF

ANALYZE: The Wage Gap by NGPF

ARTICLE: Visualizing the Massive Gender Pay Gap Across U.S. Industries by howmuch.net

VIDEO: What Is Imposter Syndrome and How Can You Combat It?  by TED-Ed

ARTICLE: Are You Aware of the Pink Tax? The Cost of Being Female by Clever Girl Finance

 

Speaker Series Virtual PD

March 6: Cracking the Credit Score Code with Sarah Rathner

March 20: The Financial Activist Playbook with Jasmine Rashid

March 27: Medicare - What the Insurance Companies Won't Tell You with Lucretia Ryan

 

NGPF Podcast Episodes

Sheila Blair, Former Chair of the FDIC

Patricia Kelly, Finance Expert and UC Santa Cruz Professor

Jaclyn Piñero, CEO of uAspire

Daniella Cardona, Vice President at the Royal Bank of Canada

 

 

 

About the Author

Hannah Rael

As NGPF's Marketing Communications Manager, Hannah (she/her) helps spread the word about NGPF's mission to improve the financial lives of the next generation of Americans.

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