Women Donors--Stereotypes Uprooted

“The portrait of women giving money away is changing,” Hall says. “It used to be primarily women who came from inherited wealth and who did sort of charitable philanthropic things. That certainly exists to some extent, but there are also now women who are earning money that they’re giving away; women who are marrying money and marrying it at a time when their husbands made the money during their relationship ... not necessarily inherited it.”