Bianca Hartge-Hazelman

The fact is that the majority of women, particularly young women, have not progressed in a fundamental financial sense, writes Bianca Hartge-Hazelman.

On Equal Pay Day, Financy looks at the best and worst industries for the gender pay gap and what you can do about it.

The financial progress of Australian women appears back on track thanks to a female-led job’s recovery from the pandemic but there is still a lot of catch-up.

The Federal Budget addressed women for the first time in decades, but only because it had to. Not because of any grand strategy.

Women could see as much as an $11,000 boost to their superannuation set to be detailed in tonight’s Federal Budget.

New research on the gender pay gaps of nearly 5000 companies shows it is likely to take another 26 years for it to close completely.

Morrison’s government commissioned a report detailing the cost of violence against women in Australia. It has never been released.

And really, 2030 is ambition. It’s more like 100+ years to wait for gender equality globally. Here’s the situation in Australia.

What’s clear from the Financy Women’s Index is that on-going inequalities faced by many Australian women has been exposed by the Coronavirus.

Every three months, Bianca Hartge-Hazelman crunches a wide variety of datasets to determine how women are progressing on economic gender equality. Her latest report highlights the pandemic’s ongoing impact on women.

Bianca Hartge-Hazelman shows how progress on women’s economic security has been derailed due to COVID-19. But there’s an opportunity to apply the lessons.

There are early signs that Australian women are bearing the brunt COVID-19 job cuts with financial progress slowing, March quarter Financy Women’s Index.