The Fiscal Feminist: A Financial Wake-up Call for Women

by Kimberlee Davis

Wealth manager and host of The Fiscal Feminist podcast Kimberlee Davis taps her 25 years’ experience to teach women how to take charge of their money and control their financial destiny.

Women are more educated and successful than ever, but they still tend to stand on the sidelines when it comes to their money, according to financial experts. At the same time, women live longer, earn less, and often have to work harder than men to offset years spent out of the workforce raising children. Adding to this perfect storm, women have suffered disproportionately in the post-pandemic downturn. The Fiscal Feminist is a call to action for women to reverse these trends by increasing their financial literacy and—ultimately—controlling their destiny. Author Kimberlee Davis, a wealth manager and host of The Fiscal Feminist podcast, taps her 25 years’ experience to educate women of all ages and economic strata about how to independently achieve—and maintain—financial health on their own terms.

Genres: Finance, Personal Finance, Nonfiction

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2022

About the author

Kimberlee Davis is the host of The Fiscal Feminist, a podcast and platform about women and their relationship with money and finance. Her mission is to help all women of all ages and wealth levels embrace their responsibility to themselves to achieve solid financial footing in both calm and turbulent times. Kimberlee has more than 25 years of finance, legal, and corporate experience and is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst. Currently she is Managing Director and Partner at The Bahnsen Group, a private wealth management firm. She is the proud mother of her three daughters, Allison, Claire and Merrill. She lives in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Reviews

[Jordan Gilbert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some helpful information, but nothing that I felt was new or incredibly helpful. The writing felt odd to me, too "you go girl" and just kind of off-putting. It's giving girlboss, but not really feminism and definitely not intersectional feminism.

[Nette · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Fiscal Feminist starts off with a kind of like a visual of the struggle that women have had to deal with regarding obtaining some financial liberties in early times. The importance of our votes and exercising the rights that other women have fought for us to have today.
It is a guide, The Fiscal Feminist, that will support and encourage women and others to think of how to safeguard their long-lasting life, since we do outlive the males and not depend on the "old tale" of getting married for the sake of financial security. The author, Kimberlee Davis, goes so into some topics I had not even heard about or considered, and that is very helpful. A brief, easy to comprehend explanation of IRAs, Investing, Savings, and explains terms like pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, guidelines for living together, inheritances, social security, and more.

[Katie Carlyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me a long time to read this book, but I learnt some really useful insights about my personal finances and how to look after and manage my own money. I think the book was really useful, i did learn a lot but I think in general I am quite in control of my finances so would have liked to have gone a bit deeper into each of the areas, though I know other reading could be a bit overwhelmed with more information. I think it’s a great introduction to money management and it really got me thinking about myself and my pension. I particularly resonated with the section that mentioned women live longer than men and the gender pay gap means women earn less so pension wise this can cause problems for women.

A great book for starting to get to grips with finances but I wanted a bit more from this one.

[C. Dunbar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ignore the reviews suggesting the book is not worth your time. Ms. Davis provides extremely useful financial advice in a straightforward, easy-to-read manner. Specifically addressing the needs of women, she shares real scenarios, explains, and motivates.

Add Fiscal Feminist to your library of financial management resources.

[Sylvie M. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great title; not so great content.

[Courtney Hodge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read and very informative. Discusses why women think about money the way they do and how to fix it.

[Tati Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s helpful for those that need an intro to finances. It’s give you the basics of you should start to navigate you financial life.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

In depth look at financial abuse, a crucial part of the domestic abuse convo that is so often overlooked yet is almost always a core component of domestic abuse

[Kirsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has a lot of really good information for women in all life stages. Worth having a copy of your own!

[Nalini Srivastava · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an eye opener or a wake up call for women to take charge of their finances. The book talks about what can be done and what must be done to secure your future and your family's future. It does not talk about where you should invest but it is only for motivating women in start investing and knowing about how how and where of money. It was an easy read. The points that are talked about in the book and not new, we all know them but hardly recognize what repercussions are caused by them, and knowing the worst case scenarios can be a motivation for reanalyzing our financial goals.
Thank you NetGalley and Kimberlee Davis for the review copy.

[Kimberly Wyatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was helpful to me as someone who comes from a family that had less than no money growing up. It is easy to read and understand and it spells things out in simple terms. It’s sad to me that many women are not interested in their financial well-being and leave it to their husbands. I have chosen not to do that and my husband is glad because he’d rather not be in charge of the finances. But, I think all women should read it and take charge of their lives.