I love reading other financial blogs, and like most everyone else here, I initially stumbled upon the idea of financial independence through a couple of those blogs. I think the online space is just incredible for motivation and finding a community of like minded individuals who cheer when you write about running to work on dark rainy mornings or line drying our laundry in order to tread lightly on the planet and to reach big financial goals.
A few months ago though, I was reading through a list of personal finance bloggers and there was literally one female listed. When someone asked in the comments below, this blogger said he didn’t know any others, which is absolutely crazy, because there are so many fantastic women in this space.
There is also a huge list of male financial bloggers, especially, male (software) engineers, starting with the original Mr Money Mustache. I think part of the reason stereotype of the white male tech FIRE blogger persists so strongly is because that is who first kicked off the movement in a big way, but it’s also more than that. When it comes to finance in general, that’s the default expectation across the board (except for maybe the specific career choice).
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But not everyone who is interested in finance independence (and early retirement) are men with huge salaries, and I think it is so important to read different perspectives than fit in that narrow box.
Millennial Boss has a great list of FIRE bloggers who are not male engineers, which is awesome for those of us who don’t make the big bucks and can’t possibly save 90% of our incomes. If you haven’t read this list, I would highly recommend checking out everyone on that list.
However, I’ve yet to see a specific list for the women, so I’ve decided to put one together here. I lived in a very progressive sorority at my liberal arts college as well as playing on the varsity softball team, and I know firsthand the power of a supportive and encouraging group of women. The female personal finance community feels very similar in this regard. The women here celebrate each other’s successes and empathize with the heartbreaks. I can only hope to meet many of them in real life some day.
Ps – this shouldn’t be surprising as women are overwhelmingly beginning to handle their family’s finances. The notion that men handle the money and women are just there to blow it is one that needs to finally die. These women are part of the movement that should finally change that archaic perspective.
I have plenty more to say on this topic – and maybe one day I will – but for now, go check out some of the content that has been produced by these awesome women.
And then go and read this follow up by Erin at Reaching For FI for a behind the scenes look at what it took to create this list, as well as the amazing and disappointing things that have come out as a result. And a year later, I’ve written a follow up to this post: The Year of Women in the Financial Independence Community – so many amazing things happened for women and money in 2018, and this list was just one of them.
Finance Blogs Written By Women
**I have been absolutely blown away from the response to this post and have taken some time to update the list to make it easier to find the kind of content you’re specifically interested in. With the incredible help of Erin from Reaching For FI, we have split the categories into:
- FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early)
- FIOR (Financial Independence, Optional Retirement – term coined by the wonderful Mad Money Monster)
- Debt Repayment
- General Finance
- Money Coaches
- Podcasts
- Books
DINK – Dual Income / No Kids
SINK – Single Income / No Kids
DIK – Dual Income / Kid(s)
SIK – Single Income / Kid(s)
The idea of the male financial blogger is so ingrained even in me that I had honestly expected this list to top out at around 30 – it has now morphed into over 100. It goes to show how deep that bias is, even when you think you are aware of it. (This list will be updated regularly as I learn about new and amazing women who are writing and speaking in the personal finance arena online)
FIRE – DINK
- A Purple Life
- All Options Considered
- Debt Free In Sunny CA
- Fetching Financial Freedom
- From One Geek to Another
- His and Her FI Post
- Kiwi And Keweenaw
- Millers on FIRE
- Our Next Life
FIRE – SINK
- Amanda Page
- Disabled Girl on Fire
- Fiery Millennials
- Financial Mechanic
- FIRE For One
- Frugality and Freedom
- Good Life. Better.
- Late Starter FIRE
- Military Dollar
- Millionaire on the Prairie
- Owning The Stars
- Partners In FIRE
- Radical FIRE
- Reaching For FI
- Recovering Women Wealth
- Well And Wealthy
FIRE – DIK
- A Gai Shan Life
- Frugal Asian Finance
- Frugalwoods
- Genymoney.ca
- Life Zemplified
- Millennial Boss
- Modest Millionaires
- Mom Money Map
- Northern Expenditure
- The Frugal Cottage
- The Frugal Gene
- TuppennysFIREplace
FIRE – SIK
- Burning Desire For FIRE
- Eat Sleep Breathe FI
- Little Miss Fire
- Love To Frugal
- Modern Fimily
- One Frugal Girl
- Stepping Stones to FI
FIOR – DINK
FIOR – SINK
- A Chat With Kat
- Along the Camel Ride
- Budget X Babe
- Cash for Kat
- Champagne & Capital Gains
- Hong Kong Dividend Stocks
- Rich and Resilient Living
- The Luxe Strategist
- Walking to FIRE
- We Want Guac
FIOR – DIK
- Chief Mom Officer
- Financially Intentional
- Freedom FIter
- Handful of Thoughts
- Mad Money Monster
- Mama Fur Fur
- Money For The Modern Girl
- Our FI Nest
- Poorer Than You
- Savvy History
- She Picks Up Pennies
- The Leveraged Mama
- The Three Year Experiment
- Tread Lightly Retire Early
- Un Pais Libre
FIOR – SIK
Debt Repayment – DINK
Debt Repayment – SINK
Debt Repayment – DIK
Debt Repayment – SIK
General Finance – DINK
- Baby Boomer Super Saver
- Bitches Get Riches
- Cash For Tacos
- Elementum Money
- Every Day by the Lake
- Fin$avvy Panda
- Half Banked
- I Like To Dabble
- Make Real Cents
- Making Sense Of Cents
- My Fab Finance
- My Life, I Guess…
- My Sense with Cents
- Science Finance
- Smile & Conquer
- Tenacious Feminist
- This Financial Wife
General Finance – SINK
- A Lawyer and Her Money
- Fitnancials
- Frugalish Physician
- Goodbye To Broke
- I Pick Up Pennies
- Mint Notion
- Money The Wright Way
- My Twenty Cents
- The Wallet Moth
General Finance – DIK
- A Dime Saved
- Brave Saver
- Frugal Overload
- Graduated Learning
- Her Money Moves
- Kassandra Dasent
- Mixed Up Money
- Money and Mountains
- NZ Muse
- Oscoey
- Saving Whiz
- The Budgeting Wife
- The Financial Graduate
General Finance – SIK
Money Coaches
- Bravely
- Budget Like A Lady
- Debbie Sassen
- Dr Jenn MD
- Dumpster Dog Blog
- Elizabeth Starr Harden
- Emily Guy Birken
- Family FI Life
- Firebird Finance
- Her First $100K
- Money School
- Money Smart Latina
- Money Tree Academy
- Moriah Chace
- The Budgetnista
- The Master Playbook
- Your Financial Launch Pad
- Your Money, Your Life Financial Coaching
Podcasts
- Afford Anything
- Be Wealthy & Smart
- Clever Girl Finance
- Everyday Courage
- FIRE Drill Podcast
- HerMoney
- Jessica Moorhouse
- Journey To Launch
- Martinis and Your Money
- Michelle Is Money Hungry
- Oh My Dollar
- So Money
- The Fairer Cents
- The Money Nerds
Books
- AgeProof, Money Rules, and Women With Money Jean Chatzky
- Broke Millennial and Broke Millennial Takes on Investing by Erin Lowry
- Clever Girl Finance by Bola Sokunbi
- End Financial Stress Now and The 5 Years Before You Retire by Emily Guy Birken
- Financial Fitness: 21 Easy Exercises To Get Your Personal Finances In Shape Fast! Dr. Vi Scott
- Happy Go Money Melissa Leong
- How to Be a Financial Grownup by Bobbi Rebell
- Kids Money Habits by Amy Koit
- Meet The Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard Thames
- Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk by Cameron Huddleston
- Operation Enough: How to Retire Remarkably Early Anita Dhake
- Quit Like A Millionaire Kristy Shen
- Shoo, Jimmy Choo! by Catey Hill
- Smart Mom, Rich Mom by Kimberly Palmer
- Teach Your Child to Fish: Five Money Habits Every Child Should Master Holly Reid
- The Broke and Beautiful Life by Stefanie O’Connell
- The Feminist Financial Handbook by Brynne Conroy
- The Financial Anxiety Solution by Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
- The Mindful Millionaire by Leisa Peterson
- The Money Queen’s Guide by Cary Carbonado
- The Nine Steps To Financial Freedom and Women & Money Suze Orman
- The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
- When She Makes More: 10 Rules For Breadwinning Women Farnoosh Torabi
- Work Optional by Tanja Hester (I wrote a review when it came out – check it out here)
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
- Your Playbook For Tough Times by Donna Freedman
Interested in continuing the discussion? Join the Women’s Personal Finance (Women On FIRE) Facebook group.
Looking for even more financial content written by women? Check out Women’s Money Talk and Women Who Money for sister sites that are 100% for and by women.
This list is great! Would love to be included in your next update under General Finance- DINK
Will do! 😄
This is great! Thank you for pulling this together and putting it out there! I would love to be included in the list if you make another update. FIHeroes FIRE – DINK
I’ve kept this list to women authored blogs that are at least 90% authored by women. If this is you, I’d love to add you!
Does anyone have a combined RSS feed link for these? I want to subscribe to all of them! Thanks for putting this together!
Hmmm I have no idea! Please let me know if you create one and I’ll add it here!
This is awesome! What a good day to be buried in snow, and to have a chance to do some reading. My second hobby (after personal finance!) is mountaineering, and I have learned just how important it is to belong to a supportive group of women in that particular community. I never thought of finance that way, but you’re absolutely right – there sure are a lot of male engineer personal finance writers out there!
But there are also sure a lot of us out there who aren’t male and/or engineers too! 🙂
Great list!! I like how it’s categorized. I’d love to be included if you post another update. I’m in general finance – DIK.
Will definitely add you to the next round of updates!
Hi,
I would love to be included in the next round up as well! All of these are giving me major inspiration! I’m all about saving money, earning money and budget travel 🙂
Where shall I put you?
I’d love to be added, too! Probably under General Finance – DINK
Thanks so much for this! I found so many new women to follow 🙂
Whoops. I’ve even featured you on a Wednesday roundup but apparently forgot to add you to the main list 😆
Hey there! What an awesome resource. I would love to be included in the next round of updates as well: Personal Finance Junkie (General Finance – SIK). Also, could you add me under books: Financial Fitness: 21 Easy Exercises To Get Your Personal Finances In Shape Fast!
So noted! 🙂
Thanks for the book shout-out! I’ve been writing about personal finance since 2007 (mostly to earn a living, but I also have a site at SurvivingAndThriving.com) and yes, I think it’s a male-dominated industry.
Is it because men make more noise (metaphorically speaking) and have no trouble believing that even mediocre effort is worth everyone’s attention? To be clear: I am not saying that men are not good writers. However, I attend the Financial Blogger Conference every year, and overhear conversations in which men say, “My blog has gotten so much better” (no, dude, it hasn’t — I read your stuff and it’s super-elementary) or “I’m CRUSHING it with affiliate marketing!” (ah, but what about your duty to the readers — are you giving them practical, ethical information to help them change their lives?).
Is it because “male” tends to be the default in our culture? (For example, you don’t hear “male district attorney” or “male firefighter” but you still, unfortunately, hear “female D.A.” or “female firefighter.”) Thus bloggers are male unless otherwise specified.
Is it because women have traditionally been raised not to boast, not to brag, not to be the center of attention?
Is it because men will to listen to (read) other men but assume that a “woman’s perspective” has nothing to interest them or, heaven forbid, to teach them? Guys we aren’t just writing about our cute kids or our cute shoes!
Gah.
May I suggest including the I Pick Up Pennies blog? It’s been around since 2009 and is written by a woman who experiences physical and mental health issues. Abigail started writing it because back when she was broke and waiting for a disability hearing, she couldn’t find useful PF info for someone in her situation. Advice like “Get a second job!” or “Sell all the toys you bought when times were better!” just didn’t fly for someone who couldn’t work and didn’t have any toys to sell.
Eventually she did find a job she can do from home and wrote about how she was finally able to get a mortgage during the real estate downturn. Abigail is transparent about playing catch-up with retirement, mental health issues, dealing with bureaucracy, developing a healthier money mindset and, most recently, how she was finally able to extricate herself from a bad marriage and start to build a life that works.
Full disclosure: She’s my daughter. But this isn’t just stage-mother praise. She won a Plutus Award at the Financial Blogger Conference (where she has also spoken) and, again, has been writing openly for a decade about mental and physical disability. The site is IPickUpPennies.net. Thanks for your consideration. And all you bloggers who happen to be female: Let’s be a little less ladylike in demanding our seats at the table. That table doesn’t belong only to men.
Wait wait wait… did I leave Abigail off my list?! Absolutely an oversight. If you go back a week or two, you’ll see I featured her in one of my Wednesday round ups 😄
Clearly, you rock.
Also, where do I put your blog?
Love it! I’d love to be added to the DINK category if you’re still taking submissions 🙂 http://www.funtimesfinance.com
Which category beyond that? General finance?
Yep general finance! 🙂
What a great resource!! I would love to be included if you are open to updates. General Finance, DIK. 🙂
Have you down for the next update:)
Wonderful. Thanks!
Wow! Hey, what a great list. I’m thrilled to see it. We are starting to catch up, right? Will you please add my blog.
Thank you!
Let me know what category to put you in! 🙂
Hey, let’s go with Single with kids. What is that? Lol. Thanks a million. 😀
General finance?
General finance. Coast FIRE.
If you’re pursuing FIRE, I’ll put you in FIRE SIK (single income kids) 🙂
Great. Thanks. Enjoy your evening.
Very interesting list. I’m going to shout out two blogs that are more on the frugality spectrum, but ever so worthy of mention. Both of these blogs helped me immensely on my journey to FIRE.
The Frugal Girl
The Non Consumer Advocate
Six years post-FIRE (mostly as a SINK) and I still follow both avidly.
Oh I’ve read The Non-Consumer Advocate forever! She definitely belongs on this list 🙂 I’ll look up The Frugal Girl.
Hi, I love this list and share it out when ever I can. We would love to be considered to be added to the list. We fit under FIRE – DINK (sub categories: retired, nomadic & LGBTQ) Please have a look at our site. Cheers
Will definitely add you to the next update!
Hi Angela, this is THE list I’ve been looking for! I started my blog out of being inspired by you and other female personal finance bloggers in the space, too.
I would love to be included in your next update! I am a FIOR SINK (love the new term – FIOR!!)
Thanks for the great articles.
xo Jules
I’m so glad to hear that!! And I will add you in the next update 🙂