Women and investing: “At the stock market, you see almost exclusively finance bros”

For Louisa Kamrath, investing begins with a moral dilemma. In her social circle, she says, there is an unspoken consensus that money is “shit” because it always comes at the expense of certain groups.

Kamrath researches single mothers and feminism at ICP Berlin. For a long time, those concerns led her to leave financial markets out of her everyday thinking. She is not alone. In many feminist circles, financial transactions are viewed as serving one main purpose: preserving the power of men who are already well off.

Kamrath also argues that capital markets create inequality between people. Her concerns extend beyond social power. She questions the idea of unlimited growth and whether climate targets can realistically be achieved. “Wherever profit is created, there must be people on whose backs it happens,” she says.

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In my bubble, there is an unspoken consensus that money is shit because it always comes at the expense of certain groups.

The article asks how feminist-minded women can invest without abandoning their values. It also examines why women remain structurally disadvantaged in retirement planning and investing. Because financial markets are dominated by men, women invest less often, a pattern linked in the article to their more frequent exposure to poverty.

That tension drives the search for feminist investing: a way to build financial security while confronting the inequalities and environmental costs that critics associate with the capital market.

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Wherever profit is created, there must be people on whose backs it happens.