10 Women Who Have No Savings Explain Why Their Accounts Are Empty

This time last year Refinery29 ran a story where women shared the reasons behind their empty savings accounts. This spanned everything from finally buying a house to spending money on medication to the impossibility of living comfortably on the UK's minimum wage.

In the 12 months since that article the financial climate has not improved. If anything, its impacts have become more acute. The cost of living crisis continues to push up the prices of every day essentials while wages stagnate, interest rates still circling the 5% mark and we begin to feel the full economic impact of the pandemic in years prior.

To reflect this, we have spoken to 10 women for an updated look on what is impacting their savings accounts and why.