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Fifty percent of those who answered an Ameriprise Financial survey said their mothers were more influential about teaching money management skills. Only 38 percent credited their fathers. The other 12 percent said they didn't know.

Analysts believe that women's financial skills have sharpened because more women are entering the work force and living longer, which requires them to make more financial planning decisions.

When asked the best way to describe their mother's approach to managing money, 55 percent of respondents said they viewed their mothers as "savers," 15 percent described their mothers as "investors" and 24 percent viewed their mothers as "spenders."

Breaking the statistics down by gender, 74 percent of the men surveyed said their mother was a good financial role model, while 68 percent of women said they saw their mother the same way.

Meanwhile, respondents were divided in terms of whether their mothers or fathers gave better advice about money.

The prospect of all-female conception

By Steve Connor, Science Editor published: 13 April 2007

Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today.

Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from male bone-marrow tissue.