INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At Value Research, we receive thousands of questions every year on our website where visitors ask us for investment advice
Of the total visitors to Value Research Online, about 30 per cent are women
So the real story here is that women ask questions at a far lower rate than men do
websites at a lower rate than men do
The basic reason has to be that women in general earn less than men, often a lot less
Even when women earn well, and even when they belong to a milieu where there is no overt discrimination, they are less likely to be managing
their own money, their savings and their investments
more often the men who manage savings and investments
But that simply restates the problem in different words
Maybe the problem is being seen asking questions in public
so ended up not writing in
Meanwhile, thousands of men blithely write in asking questions and (one assumes) learning from the advice, regardless of the level of
foolishness displayed.
So how will this change Fundamentally, the question is one of earning and having control of the money
However, this observation about questions at Value Research shows that there is also a different issue at play
the end of the day, money is power, and that power extends not just to earning money but managing it, investing it and having a say in
Both are a majority, vastly bigger than the knowledgeable ones
