Financial Tips to Ease the Balancing Act
By Lisa Stevens

Women are seeing their career potential grow to new heights as many continue to make major strides in assuming prominent leadership roles.

The traditional questions around ‘family or career’ have become passé, as many women have determined they can have ‘it all’ if they make their mind to do it. For some, balance means having time to be at their child’s class recital or getting to the gym. For others, balance means extravagant vacations. Many women want to enjoy all of this and more.

It’s no secret women are making a majority of financial decisions at home. Yet as career and earnings potential continue to grow for professional women, decisions on handling personal finances become more complex. Taking care of the household finances, investing wisely, and putting something away for the future are good rules of thumb. Fortunately there’s a tailored financial plan for everyone. With the right individual plan, professionals can have peace of mind they can succeed financially today, and for their family tomorrow. Wells Fargo can help professional women achieve their goals and dreams by learning how to be financially successful.

Tailored solutions are also available for women business owners. In 1995, we created the Women Business Services Program to address these issues and more. The program is an outreach and education plan designed to increase access to capital, establish and grow a business, plan for retirement and enjoy a good work/life balance. Additionally as part of our dedication, we established a goal to lend $20 billion over 10 years to women entrepreneurs. To date, we have lent more than $4 billion to thousands of women-owned businesses across the nation.