women and financial futures

It is clear that women have come a long way in the past hundred years. They have gained the right to vote and have become the head of many businesses and the main money earner of many families. If this is true, I find it strange that many women are still kept out of the financial situations families go through. As written in an article By Janet Bodnar she writes that while many women are tasked with day to day finances, men are still overwhelmingly tasked with the financial future, that being buying and selling stocks, bonds and mutual funds. It seems silly that even though we have reached almost equal status in most of society, women have not taken a larger part in shaping their own and their family’s future. They should take a larger interest because it is their future too.