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Here’s What We CAN Control Right Now

Here’s What We CAN Control Right Now
We live in a “Can you believe this headline? And this one? And this one?” world these days, where it can feel like so much is out of our control.
Shouldn’t we have had more women in Congress by now? Shouldn’t we have had more women in Fortune 500 CEO roles, rather than going backwards? Wasn’t the gender pay gap supposed to have long ago closed — and, by the way, wasn’t our boss supposed to have given us that raise that we 100% deserve?
We can only control what we can control.
There are parts of our future that we do have direct control over. So I was surprised when I recently spoke to a group of women lawyers, one more impressive than the next: When the moderator asked how many of them were actively investing for their futures, only about 10% of hands went up. When I spoke to some of them during the day, a number said their partners do the investing for the household, or that they simply invest in the retirement plan at work and have it on auto-pilot.
No, no, no, no, no. Please no.
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Sallie Krawcheck
Chair
Ellevate Network
Sallie Krawcheck’s mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals (or, put more bluntly, to get more money into the hands of women), thus enabling them to live better lives and unleashing a positive ripple effect for our families, our communities and our economy. She is the CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, an innovative financial company, by women for women. Ellevest is one of the fastest growing digital investment platforms and has... Continue Reading
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