Melanie Lockert

Melanie Lockert is a freelance writer with over a decade of experience covering a wide range of personal finance topics. Her work has been featured in Business Insider, CBS News MoneyWatch, Salon, Yahoo Finance, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today Blueprint, CNN Underscored, Fortune Recommends, and more.
50 Years of Plastic Power: How Women Won the Right to Swipe

50 Years of Plastic Power: How Women Won the Right to Swipe

It’s only been half a century since women could get credit in their own name. We’ve come a long way from, “Pretty please, can I buy a blender?”—but we still don’t get all the credit we deserve. The fight for financial equality has entered midlife. It was just 51 years...