Australian workers get paid superannuation payments during paid sick leave, paid long service leave and paid annual leave. But it’s not a legal requirement that Australians receive superannuation when…
Insolvencies among women over 65 increase by 88% in a decade: UK study
A study from UK based job site Rest Less has found a staggering 88% increase in insolvencies amongst women aged 65 and over from 2008 to 2018. The research, which comes from the jobs, volunteering and…
A man’s not a financial plan, but sadly neither is our super system
Carmen Hawker’s been working for ten years but has so far only amassed enough super for one year of her retirement. It’s a familiar story for millennial women, growing up with a superannua…
Financial equality for Australian women is more than a generation away
Australian women are likely to wait 45 years, more than a generation, before achieving financial equality. The latest Financy Women’s Index shows that progress on economic equality for women has slowe…
Voluntary super: a good way to increase women’s dependence on men
Voluntary super contributions would be a backward step for women and would increase the superannuation gap, writes Helen Hodgson, from Curtin University and Myra Hamilton, from UNSW in this piece rep…
Voters want action on women’s issues, but will our leaders listen?
More than half of Australians feel women’s issues are recurrently sidelined by the government, according to a new poll released this week. In a survey commissioned by independent lobby group Wo…
