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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
Grace L. Williams
3.37 AVERAGE
172 reviews for:
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
Grace L. Williams
3.37 AVERAGE
i really wanted to love this book and for some reason this just didn’t click with me. i thought the topic was interesting but this was a really difficult book for me to get through. it may not be my cup of tea but that’s okay!
A rounded up 3.5. It was very readable and didn’t feel dry. It’s not about the first women’s bank but one that was successful and got a national charter. It also shed light on how difficult it was for women to do banking even when it became legal.
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Informative and interesting insight on being a woman in the 60s and 70s. The women we did get background/life stories for were inspiring and wonderfully stubborn despite societies every attempts to hold them back.
It was a jarring moment to realize just how recent all of these events really are when you reach the epilogue and so many of the women are still alive and kickin today.
Took a quarter star off because it got really repetitive when they were waiting for a response to their charter application. Yes, I get they can't do anything to move forward without an approved charter, you've told me that several times already.
It was a jarring moment to realize just how recent all of these events really are when you reach the epilogue and so many of the women are still alive and kickin today.
Took a quarter star off because it got really repetitive when they were waiting for a response to their charter application. Yes, I get they can't do anything to move forward without an approved charter, you've told me that several times already.
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I tend to gravitate toward feminist, socially conscious themes and informative narratives about systemic issues, and Give Her Credit definitely focus on female empowerment in finance. However, this book heavily emphasizes economics and I got lost in the sauce a few times, with one page blending into the next. There were so many women involved in the creation of the first women’s bank, and the author takes extraordinary pains to ensure every woman’s life story is told in its entirety. After a few of these stories, with names and dates being thrown back and forth and jumping from one woman to the next as the overall story of the bank is told… I found there was just too much to keep track of.
I read this because I’m interested in feminist history, but I did not anticipate how much the book would focus on economics, a topic which generally doesn’t interest me. Undoubtedly, this was a well-written and thoroughly researched book, but I was increasingly bored and overwhelmed as I read it.
Give Her Credit focuses on uplifting historical solutions towards systems of inequality while also highlighting the life stories of the women involved in those solutions. There is a wealth of information in this book and so much to learn. The women mentioned are more than worthy of having their stories told, and I don’t intend any dislike towards those stories. It was more a method of presentation within the book that had me losing interest, despite my best efforts to remain engaged. For someone with a background in finance or economics, I’m sure this book wouldn’t be quite as overwhelming and I highly recommend it.
*Special thank you to NetGalley and Little A for my DRC of Give Her Credit!*
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