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Falling Through The Glass Floor
Women have come a long way since the mid
20th century. They now outnumber men at college campuses across the
country, and are graduating at a ratio that favors them even more. They
have overtaken entire business sectors that 50 years ago were dominated
by men – graphic design, public relations, publishing, high fashion and
real estate, just to name a few.
Today’s professional women are earning
what their working grandmothers would have called a “man’s salary,” and
when today’s professionals marry, the chances are almost 50/50 that the
wife is earning more than her husband. Increasing numbers of women are
choosing to raise a family on their own – perhaps because for the first
time in history, they can.
So why are women still living in the 1950s when it comes to life insurance?
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Life Insurance: Why Now?
Dealing with the thought of what will happen to your family and loved
ones if you pass away isn’t a fun topic. A lot of people put off life
insurance because they don’t know what to do or just don’t enjoy
thinking about it. Do your family a favor and don’t wait any longer.
The unexpected can happen any day and it is best for your family if you
are prepared. Having to deal with funeral arrangements and splitting up
personal items is not something your family and loved ones will want to
deal with while morning. I know, I know it’s depressing, but it is part
of life.
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How do I get the best rate quote for life insurance?
There are several different factors that go into determining your premium quote for life insurance. These factors include, age, gender, health status, mental health status, health history and the type of policy that you are looking to purchase. Out side of the type of policy that you are looking to purchase, you can take control of your life in order to benefit you in the long run, both financially and of course for your own personal self.
You have heard it before, taking good care of your health can benefit you more than by just being healthy. When it comes to life insurance, your health is a factor in whether or not you will be approved for the type of policy that you are looking to purchase. This is because the healthier you are, the less likely you are to die. If you are less likely to die, the more benefit the insurance company has of receiving your premium payments each month, which in turns benefits them as well as other policyholders.
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Term vs. Whole life insurance, which is better?
There has always been a great debate about what kind of life insurance that you should carry. Some say that there is more benefit to carrying term life because if you die during the course of your policy then your beneficiary gets exactly what you paid for. While other would say that is better to have a steady premiums that will never increase over the course of your life that you get with whole life.
With term life most of the time the premiums are cheaper than whole life but at the end of the set term the policy expires and so do the cheap premium that you were paying. This is because you bought a policy for a set amount of time or term, and now that that the policy has expired you are that much older. Your age is used to calculate your premiums so you might have gotten a nice cheap rate when you started your policy at 27 but now that you are 42 the rates have increase significantly.
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