Women, Wealth and Giving: The Virtuous Legacy of the Boom Generation Review

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Women, Wealth and Giving: The Virtuous Legacy of the Boom Generation ReviewTo begin with, this is an intelligent book - no small praise in the growing pantheon of efforts to explain philanthropy. While the idea of giving money to worthy causes will probably always be linked to words like "goodness" and "altruism," it often doesn't survive a critical analysis, particularly among those not intimately linked to nonprofits, because the feelings, mushy on their own, are usually unconnected to useful or concrete motivators. Which is, in its way, an irony of "Women, Wealth, and Giving": Its main message circles around values and feelings, and yet it conveys concrete ways for women to make the most of who they are to help society. Margaret May Damen and Niki Nicastro McCuistion, in a way most current writers of philanthropy and the nonprofit world do not or cannot, have merged underlying passions with an intellectual authority to explain why women need to see themselves as donors separate from men.
That authority is partly why the book is a delight to read. Here is a sample sentence (in a section describing the "scarcity myth"): "For many women, the emotional paralysis of the heart keeps the pocketbook locked even as the spirit of abundance dances all around it." I read that - and several other passages - more than once to allow an idea to seep in that a single reading would deny.
But less would not have worked. The authors' whole thesis is that for women to serve society meaningfully they must use their extraordinary and, unfortunately, unique traits. That's a tall order, and they fill it. By the way, it is not only my opinion, or only theirs, that women's traits - a sense of understanding and a need for community, among others - are unique; they call upon an abundance of research to make their case; i.e., "Our sense of ourselves is defined by our sameness to one another, compared to the male identity which is formed by its difference from the other." That comes from Marilyn Wechter, a wealth counselor and psychotherapist, who is one of many resources called upon in this book. Yet while it relies on many statistics, a few charts, and outside interpretations of the process of giving among women, this book - as you can see - goes well past dry data. A lot is said in these pages. All of it is relevant.
Which is why men must read this book too. While the authors implore women to unleash locked up (or hidden or dormant) energy, passion and talent, men, when you think of it, need to do the same thing. For this, as I read it, is not a call for women to be more like men in their giving - it is a call for a better society through better philanthropy. Men would do well to heed the same advice. In that quest, men might start out handicapped (mistakenly thinking (my opinion), for example, that "results-oriented" and "efficiencies" are only two of the more predominant generators of better giving), but there is hope - and "Women, Wealth, and Giving," is just the place to find it.Women, Wealth and Giving: The Virtuous Legacy of the Boom Generation Overview

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