Women need 7% more superBY JAMES FERNYHOUGH | FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013 12:30PMWomen's superannuation contribution rates would need to be 7% higher than men's in order to achieve gender equality, a study has found. Related News |
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It was during a family sojourn to the seaside town of Pescara, Italy, Rob DeDominicis first laid eyes on what would become the harbinger of his future. Andrew McKean writes.
The real issue here still seems to be one of equal pay for equal work. Its ridiculous in this day and age that women are still paid less for doing the same job. This needs to be fixed yesterday, as it is a very real form of discrimination. The rest though is really about choices. Hard choices to be sure, and I don't trivialise them. But choices rarely come without cost, and reduced superannuation saving after taking 5 years off work, would be one of them.
As for whether women should try to make up the gap by adjusting for higher risk investment strategies - that is a very slippery slope, fraught with uncertainty, and possibly inappropriate in many circumstances. Whether it spans the social equity gap depends on whether the assumptions you've made while constructing models in the safety of theoretical ruminations hold true.
Alternatively, women could insist that during their maternity leave, their partner's superannuation is equally split between the couple's funds.