Talking about money with coworkers

[Anonymous]

I noticed the women are more likely to talk about what’s on sale. The men are more likely to talk about their portfolios and real estate. Just an observation, as a woman buying a home and invested in the stock market.

[Anonymous]

I hear you. I love discussing geopolitics and I've handpicked my stocks for more than a decade. Somehow I find myself discussing those with my male friends. I broach parenting, social and artistic topics with my female friends. Even though they're all married with kids and supposedly equal partners in finances and kids!

[Anonymous]

Who can I discuss Harry Styles with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who can I discuss Harry Styles with?

Gen Z.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who can I discuss Harry Styles with?

Gen Z.

Gen Z and Millennials with bad taste in music.

[Anonymous]

Female, early 50s, and I do not discuss money at work because then they would realize how much I have and how soon I am likely to retire.

[Anonymous]

I’m a woman and discuss finance and investments at work all the time? I’ve never observed it to be unusual or especially gendered.

[Anonymous]

I manage the money in my family, including investments, and I don't talk about money at work. At all.
You have framed this like it's a difference in interests but I think it's more likely a difference in how women know they will be perceived if they admit to having money or caring about money.

[Anonymous]

I talk about money when asked. My co-workers know that my income comes from investing and not from the part time job.
Some want to borrow and some have. After 30 years of co-workers and friends asking to borrow, I can confidently say that it's men who are more likely to borrow and less likely to pay back.

[Anonymous]

I am a woman and would NEVER discuss money at work. My spouse is very high earning and so have zero desire for people to have any awareness of that. People are way too class obsessed and I don’t want them spending time worrying about what i have vs them.

[Anonymous]

There's talking about finance strategies--IRA v Roth, optimizing pension plan, retirement strategies, etc.--and then there is talking about personal money situations. Talking about the former is common at my work, talking about the latter is not done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I talk about money when asked. My co-workers know that my income comes from investing and not from the part time job.
Some want to borrow and some have. After 30 years of co-workers and friends asking to borrow, I can confidently say that it's men who are more likely to borrow and less likely to pay back.

That's very weird - and unwise - to disclose that your income comes from investments. Did you just want people to know that you're working because you want to and not because you have to?

[Anonymous]

Outside of general investment ideas, there isn’t a lot of talk about money at work because we’re working. My supervisor is a CFO so it aligns (and she’s a woman), but I am not involved in finance or accounting - just a weird reporting structure.

[Anonymous]

Funnily enough, the coworkers that I KNOW are loaded are the ones that give it away by not talking about it. It’s okay to say wow the stock market is going gangbusters: at best they’ll think you’re into investing or at worst, crypto. It’s weird when they’re the odd one out that is quiet when a financial topic comes up.

[Anonymous]

When I worked, men and women talked about money equally. Conversation centered around our 401Ks. We never talked $$$, only types of funds and allocation. Every month we’d have a friendly competition about whose balance increased the most and who had highest YTD. (always by %).