Single Women and Money

Finally, there’s a money guide to help single women survive and thrive.

Single Women and Money is a highly readable guide that helps single women live a financially secure and successful life. It’s a book for the millions of unmarried women in America who must make ends meet on a single salary—which is typically less than what men earn.

Using stories of actual women, as well as data and experts’ insights, the book chronicles the financial issues of single women. It provides the tools needed to tackle their daily and longer-term needs and probes the issues specific to divorcees, widows, women who never married, and single mothers. Single women reveal their moving stories detailing how many have overcome obstacles. From there, the book provides a wide range of specific guidance on money issues targeted to singles. These include saving, spending wisely, managing with children, shedding debt, investing in line with your values, planning for retirement and long-term care, navigating Social Security, paying taxes, landing a job after age 55, protecting financial assets and leaving a legacy. Offering resources women can turn to in hard times, the authors also suggest ways society can, and should, assist single women.

Jill Gianola, a published author, teacher, speaker, and nationally known financial planner, has seen first-hand how women who are equipped with the know-how to make smart financial choices have changed their lives. Founder of Gianola Financial Planning, Gianola’s work has been recognized by such publications as Mutual Funds magazine, which named her one of the top 100 planners in the US, and Money magazine,which featured her advice in "Secrets of America's Top Advisors." Gianola is the author of The Young Couple’s Guide to Growing Rich Together. Gianola also wrote a regular column as the family finances expert for iVillage, a woman-focused website, and was the author of the “Your Money Questions Answered” column for AllYou. In addition to her work with her own clients, Gianola reaches a broader audience through the national financial press. She has been quoted regularly, including in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s, and Barron’s, and she has appeared on personal finance segments on CNBC and CNN-fn. Gianola has taught personal finance courses at Ohio State University, Franklin University, and Columbus State Community College, and economics at Wittenberg University.

Margaret Price is an editor, author, and award-winning journalist. She has been an editor at Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazine, international editor at Crain Communications’ Pensions & Investments magazine and senior editor at Treasury & Risk Management magazine. She also has written for such prominent publications as Investor’[s Business Daily, New York Daily News, Newsday newspaper and the Christian Science Monitor. Price is a member and past president of the New York Financial Writers’ Association. She also is the author of the book, Emerging Stock Markets, A Complete Investment Guide to New Markets Around the World. Active in her community, she is co-chair of the Women & Families Committee of Community Board 8-Manhattan. She also is a 2021 recipient of a New York State Woman of Distinction award, presented by State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright.

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