As women we are not encouraged to actively invest and the general bias that women are not “good investors” has no substantial data to prove this overarching opinion.  In fact, just the opposite is reported in an article below I came across in Forbes, and reflects measurable facts, that women often stick to an investment strategy once they have decided to actively invest and more often outperform our male counterparts when it comes to risk adjusted returns (which is better than average returns).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2017/11/15/women-investors-get-a-bad-rap/#1fbd2bf23828

For women, staying invested and having a pattern of systematic investing is important to achieving most financial long-term goals.  In today’s new market, using alternatives can provide passage to reduce overall market risk to a portfolio and still achieve long term gains that have an edge over inflation risk, which for women, planning for retirement is a much larger risk than short term market volatility.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/14/ework-before-using-alternative-investments.html