You've heard of fight, flight and freeze. But experts say a lesser-known stress response could be quietly shaping women's money decisions, and costing them more than they realise.
![]() | Caitlin Bath is the founder of She's Giving Wealth, a feminist personal finance movement and book that reframes the gender wealth gap as a design problem, not a behavioural one. Her work looks past spreadsheets and budgeting to a bigger question: why is money advice built for a straight line, when women's lives actually move in seasons - of chaos, of rebuilding, of growth, of rest? Drawing on her own experience of divorce and rebuilding, alongside stories from 14 women contributors, Caitlin argues that behaviours often read as financial "failure" - leaving, starting over, pulling back - are usually a woman moving through exactly the season she's in. Her writing has appeared in Mamamia, Sunday Life, WHO magazine, and CEO Magazine. |