A feminist guide to changing the world with your money
From the founders of Female Invest
By Camilla Falkenberg, Emma Due Bitz and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen
Published on the 16th of 2024
Women are put aside from political decisions, despite being seen as part of the solution. The chaos met nowadays with climate change highlights the need for women to be represented and to go into the game.
After the late independence of women for their money, on the 13th July 1965 in France, “According to a study by Merrill Lynch, 61% of women say they’d rather discuss their own death than talk about their money”.
As money is controlling the world, let your money “marry your values”. When it comes to investments, investing within a company goes to its strengths and tools to grow. “Sustainable investing is fantastic, especially if it really does take steps towards changing the world.” Women are still underrepresented within industries, with “only eight percent of CEO positions in the S&P 500 are held by women”, from The CEO Magazine. So, why not invest in women’s companies that embody our values?
Money has a strong power to drive our lives and our decisions. It is more omnipresent than we can think about. Financial literacy is still low in the world, and our ability to manage money is too. For example, only 26% of the European population knows how to manage their money very well, according to a survey in 2023.
To tackle this gap between the needs and the reality, Kehsia is going forward with European partners through FLIP projects ( Erasmus + KA3) to develop youth democratic participation. It aims to help youth learn to manage their finance alongside strengthening the democratic process. Indeed, youth participatory budget, as put in place in Portugal, in some municipalities, gives the youth the ability to build a proposal to implement in their municipality by elaborating the goals, the plan, the expected results, and the budget.
The Financial Literacy for Innovative Youth Participation (FLIP) projects is still ongoing with online sessions to learn more about financial literacy and participatory budgeting. The first session will take place the 16th June 2025 at 18h for 2 hours, do not hesitate to sign up here.