Money Talk to your kids about superannuation On Sunday night I had dinner with my brother and his fiancé, and the topic of superannuation and retirement came up.
Health What’s normal? The trouble with cosmetic surgery for vaginas General practitioners have an important role to play in alleviating women’s anxiety about their genital appearance and can help stop the rise in women going under the knife for cosmetic reasons.
Money Mark Bouris: 10 tips for sorting out your super Superannuation is a fact of modern life: the government wants you to save some of your earnings for retirement, and it makes available very generous tax benefits to allow you to build a nest egg.
Health What happened when I stopped looking for balance and instead discovered my creativity We talk so much about finding balance between work and home, but I think there is no such thing as balance.
Money Let’s not pretend the ‘bad decisions’ of women are to blame for the gap in super balances The gap between the retirement incomes of men and women will never be solved by information campaigns, decision-making tools or new websites.
Health Retirees Drink Themselves to a Shattered Sleep Older Australians are drinking so much coffee and booze that it’s damaging their already fragile sleep, a new survey has found.
Money Women need to work an extra 25 years to match men’s superannuation The average 60-year-old Australian woman would need to work an extra 25 years in order to retire with the same superannuation account balance as her male counterpart.
Health 9 life lessons from a year without exercise I lay in a sweaty shavasana after a gruelling hot yoga class.
Money Recession, fraud and other threats: How to safeguard your superannuation Our three part superannuation ‘recovery series’ covers some of the most common pitfalls affecting a woman’s retirement savings.
Health Chemical messengers: how hormones affect our mood “It’s that time of the month – stay away from her!” The process of shedding the uterine lining with vaginal bleeding every month has an obvious reproductive focus, but it has also long been linked with changes to mood and behaviour.
Money One choice all women can make: Get interested in super An excellent research paper released by The Australia Institute this week, titled: ‘What’s choice got to do with it?’ highlights the many social, economic and cultural factors that combine to disadvantage women financially throughout their lives.
