GSRI's Having It All: Girls & Financial Literacy Findings Summary
On Monday, April 15, 2013, the Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) released “Having It All: Girls and Financial Literacy” ; research on girls and their views about financial literacy. Below you will find a summary of the reasoning behind the research and the key findings of GSRI. In today’s world of the stock market, credit and loans, it is important for children to be financially literate so they can make sound decisions for their future. Currently, financial literacy is not learned in the standard K-12 curriculum in the US; the responsibility of teaching financial literacy belongs to parents, families and after-school programs, like Girl Scouts. According to Having It All: Girls and Financial Literacy, past research has suggested that girls have less confidence in their financial knowledge than boys. To gain an understanding of the reasoning, the Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) conducted a nationwide survey of girls and their paren...