It strikes me that there may be another money lie that we should put to rest: that the financial and economic progress of women is inevitable.
It feels like it should be, doesn’t it? With our first woman vice president. With a woman Speaker of the House. With women as the majority of college and advanced degree graduates. With more women than ever leading Fortune 500 companies. With the number of new women-owned businesses running at more than double that of all businesses over the five years leading up to the pandemic.
But that was before the pandemic, and the past year has demonstrated that progress is 100% not inevitable.
