BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Women’s History Month is dedicated to honoring the achievements and progress women have made across the nation.<\/p>\n
Women have had to overcome countless obstacles to gain more quality in the U.S., one of those being financial freedom.<\/p>\n
Although women have come a long way, experts say they still face different financial realities than men.<\/p>\n
Challenges such as career breaks due to motherhood, caregiving responsibilities that can add an extra burden onto their workload and a longer life expectancy that raises questions about retirement plans can make financial planning more complicated for women.<\/p>\n
NerdWallet Personal Finance Expert Kimberly Palmer joined ARC Bakersfield to share what financial decisions women should be making at different stages of life.<\/p>\n
Palmer says women should build credit, create a budget and start investing in their 20s.<\/p>\n
She says women in their 30s should focus on increasing personal insurance coverage, prioritizing retirement funds and having transparent financial talks with partners.<\/p>\n
Finally, Palmer says women in their 50s should maximize their retirement savings, reassess long term care plans and create or update estate documents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Women’s History Month is dedicated to honoring the achievements and progress women have made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-213013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}