Submitted by Bashful User on Wed, 2009-09-02 04:18.
Watching this video makes me feel very uncomfortable. (I was one of the women you interviewed, but was not one of the women shown in the video.) Your point is well taken - many women are not very well informed about the vocabulary of elite finance, but by insulting the women you interviewed, saying their ignorance made you "angry" and disappointed really only reinforces the idea that women don't understand money because they just aren't smart enough. Who, watching this video, would feel encouraged to learn about finance or included in the world of money and investments? You seem to be positioning yourself as some sort of token woman who went against the odds and learned about this rarefied scary world of men's money, and are congratulating yourself on your knowledge and expertise - which undoubtedly came from a privileged education that most people don't have access to - by comparing yourself to other women and belittling them. Is knowing what a stock, bond, or mutual fund really the key to understanding personal finance? I bet a lot of the women you talked to could teach you about making things work financially in their own lives and the creative strategies they employ to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the world, as women who traditionally and all too frequently make less money than their male counterparts. Sadly, we don't get to learn from these women, but instead are forced to join you in humiliating them (if we consider ourselves smart about finance) or else to identify with them, and feel further alienated from the seemingly inaccessible financial knowledge which you supposedly want to teach us. I hope you take these ideas into consideration because your project has a lot of potential and is much needed.
Thank you very much for your feedback. We encourage it and want to make content development an interactive process because that's how we think it will best help our users.
Part of the goal with this site (and video) is to raise awareness. As you know, the unfortunate truth is that women are not relatively encouraged to learn about saving, investing or other financial issues. I certainly wasn't, but I was lucky enough to follow a career path and go to a business school which taught me about this world. And you're quite right, not many women follow this path.
Please keep watching our videos, because we are producing clips about the very things you suggest - such as creative strategies to make ends meet and a blog about how to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Definitely keep the feedback coming. We want to hear from you.
Watching this video makes me feel very uncomfortable. (I was one of the women you interviewed, but was not one of the women shown in the video.) Your point is well taken - many women are not very well informed about the vocabulary of elite finance, but by insulting the women you interviewed, saying their ignorance made you "angry" and disappointed really only reinforces the idea that women don't understand money because they just aren't smart enough. Who, watching this video, would feel encouraged to learn about finance or included in the world of money and investments? You seem to be positioning yourself as some sort of token woman who went against the odds and learned about this rarefied scary world of men's money, and are congratulating yourself on your knowledge and expertise - which undoubtedly came from a privileged education that most people don't have access to - by comparing yourself to other women and belittling them. Is knowing what a stock, bond, or mutual fund really the key to understanding personal finance? I bet a lot of the women you talked to could teach you about making things work financially in their own lives and the creative strategies they employ to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the world, as women who traditionally and all too frequently make less money than their male counterparts. Sadly, we don't get to learn from these women, but instead are forced to join you in humiliating them (if we consider ourselves smart about finance) or else to identify with them, and feel further alienated from the seemingly inaccessible financial knowledge which you supposedly want to teach us. I hope you take these ideas into consideration because your project has a lot of potential and is much needed.
Thank you very much for your feedback. We encourage it and want to make content development an interactive process because that's how we think it will best help our users.
Part of the goal with this site (and video) is to raise awareness. As you know, the unfortunate truth is that women are not relatively encouraged to learn about saving, investing or other financial issues. I certainly wasn't, but I was lucky enough to follow a career path and go to a business school which taught me about this world. And you're quite right, not many women follow this path.
Please keep watching our videos, because we are producing clips about the very things you suggest - such as creative strategies to make ends meet and a blog about how to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Definitely keep the feedback coming. We want to hear from you.
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