Curriculum Women and Money
Women and Money
Practical and economic guidance on the money challenges women face in India - longer lives, career breaks, property and stridhan rights, investing confidence, insurance, self-help groups, economic abuse, divorce, entrepreneurship and retirement planning.
- Why Women Face Different Money Challenges How longer lives, career breaks, pay gaps and social norms mean women often need to plan their finances differently, and why financial independence matters. 📄 Read-aloud
- Your Own Account, Your Own Savings Why every woman should have a bank account and savings in her own name, how to build an emergency fund, and how to stay informed about family finances. 📄 Read-aloud
- Planning Money Around Career Breaks How career breaks for childcare or caregiving affect lifetime earnings and savings, and practical ways to protect finances before, during and after a break. 📄 Read-aloud
- Stridhan and Women's Property Rights What stridhan is and why it legally belongs to a woman, how inheritance rights for daughters changed in 2005, and how women can protect their property. 📄 Read-aloud
- Women and Investing: Closing the Confidence Gap Why women invest less in markets despite similar or better investing outcomes, and how to build confidence and start investing. 📄 Read-aloud
- Insurance Every Woman Should Consider Why women, including homemakers, need health and life insurance, what maternity and critical illness cover offer, and how to choose wisely. 📄 Read-aloud
- Women and Money: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on women's money challenges, independence, career breaks, stridhan and investing. 5 questions
- Self-Help Groups and Women's Economic Power How India's self-help group movement organised crores of rural women into savings and credit groups, and what it has achieved. 📄 Read-aloud
- Recognising Economic Abuse What economic abuse looks like - controlling money, blocking work or taking assets - how Indian law recognises it, and where to get help. 📄 Read-aloud
- Divorce and Money in India How maintenance, alimony and property division work in Indian divorces, and how women can protect their financial position. 📄 Read-aloud
- Women Entrepreneurs and Access to Credit Why women entrepreneurs face bigger hurdles in getting finance, and how schemes like Mudra, Stand-Up India and digital lending are helping. 📄 Read-aloud
- Retirement Planning for Women Why women need to save more for retirement because of longer lives and career breaks, and practical strategies to build an adequate retirement fund. 📄 Read-aloud
- A Financial Checklist for Women A practical checklist summarising key money steps for women at every stage of life, plus a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud