Think Single: The Woman's Guide to Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

by Janet Bodnar

This book provides useful and specific answers to the financial questions uppermost on women's minds.

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Mark Muckerman]

It was okay.

As a parent of a young professional daughter in the early stage of her professional life, I picked this up hoping for some pearls of wisdom particularly relevant to that demographic. Not bad, but not overwhelming.

Much of the book is simply a repetition of basic financial planning standards of advice.
Bodnar does (especially in early chapters) put a 'women-centric' spin on the concepts, needs for and advice, but overall there was too little "women-specific" guidance or substantive context for me to really value as appreciably unique enough to warrant a full book on the topic.

I think the topic has/had merit, but content fell short of excellently relevant.

[Jennifer]

A simple fix to the subtitle would probably improve the ratings on this book. Something like "a Married Woman's guide..." This has some fine advice (although it will need an update soon, technology has advanced in just the relatively short time since this was published)but the audience is married women and it would be helpful for those about to marry. It is sequenced well with short, action oriented chapters and a checklist at the end that summarizes.

[Liz De Coster]

Despite the title, there was very little information helpful for a single, childless or young woman in this book.