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FINANCE

FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
The Emotional Life of Money
Financial Nutrition®

for Young Women How Money Changes the Way
We Think and Feel
How (and Why) to Teach MARY CROSS
Girls about Money
The Emotional Life of Money: How
MELISSA DONOHUE, EDD Money Changes the Way We Think
and Feel identifies common hang-
Women earn 78 cents on
the dollar, on average, ups and anxieties about money;
compared to men in summarizes current academic
America, despite decades research on money behavior and
of fighting for wage how people make decisions about
equality. And while their money; discusses the newest
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FEATURES FEATURES
• Presents ways that girls can try the financial learning • Provides unique insights into the emotional/psychological side
activities from the book when it fits in their schedules— of money and discusses how money affects the way we think
after school, in the evenings, or on weekends and behave
• Examines how human emotion on an individual level
influences much larger economic cycles of boom and bust
• Includes worksheets and quizzes to help readers determine
their own Money Script and how it was “written” in their own
family
• Identifies the differences commonly seen between men and
women in money attitudes and money management

MARY CROSS, PhD, is professor emerita at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Madison, NJ, where she was chair of the English
Department.

MELISSA DONOHUE, EdD, is president and founder of
Financial Nutrition®, a nonprofit organization focused on
girls’ financial literacy and economic empowerment, and
has more than 20 years of experience in finance, financial
journalism, and financial education.

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