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Have wives replaced husbands as breadwinner? Tell MONEY about it.

For a forthcoming story in MONEY, the magazine is seeking to interview families in which the wife has become the primary or sole breadwinner in the last year or so. The reasons for the change might include the husband's job loss, the wife's raise or promotion, or some other set of circumstances.

We'd like to find families soon, so if you think you'd like to participate, please email your name and MORE

Sugar-coated financial advice for women leaves bitter taste

Do women really require female-targeted money books with chick-lit titles, cute covers and hipster language ?

That's the debate sparked by an essay published on Slate last week about the rise of sugar-coated personal finance books for women.

Many people — not just those of us who write about women's financial issues — have been baffled by the popularity of books such as  Hot (broke) Messes and Does This Make My Assets Look MORE

Is the Fed really "punishing savers"?

You hear a lot that the Federal Reserve is "punishing savers." Here are just a few recent examples. (Full disclosure: It's a point I've made in passing myself.)

And it makes sense — if you don't take it too far.

Senate to vote on equal-pay measure for women

It has been nearly half a century since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. But that pesky pay gap between men and women persists — and now there's actually something you can do about it.

Financial advice needs his-and-hers models

What do women want...from a financial adviser? A new study indicates that, as in so many other aspects of life, it's quite different from what men are looking for.

And as I wrote in the November issue of MONEY, that's probably a good thing: Women's financial needs are very different from men's, given that they typically earn less and save less than men do, but have to plan for a much MORE

Why isn't anyone afraid of deflation?

All right, not exactly no one. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is worried about it — hence the latest round of quantitative easing.

But listen to talk radio, read a financial blog or two, or just talk to some of your friends, and you won't find much populist anxiety about falling prices. To the contrary, a lot of people are terrified about inflation, even though it's currently running at an annual MORE