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Super Fierce targets gender wealth gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... majority of those are women. So, these numbers are much lower than reality," Probert said. Super Fierce estimates the real super gap is likely around the 50% mark. "There is a particularly high penalty for mothers, which is ridiculous given parenting ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... 300,000 Australians - two thirds of them women - who work in part-time or casual roles and has contributed to the gender super gap," CareSuper chief executive Julie Lander explains. Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart adds: "That means that when ...

ISA releases pre-election wish list

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... election. Noting various discrepancies within the current system, the plan urges any future government to bridge the gender super gap, fix the $5 billion a year unpaid super scourge, protect members from dud funds and to stop tinkering with super's foundations. ...

Government fails to prioritise $450 threshold

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... women's economic security is a priority for the government," Blakey said. "We already know women experience a gender super gap that results in them having more than a third less super than men. This gender super gap is further exacerbated for members ...

Budget no cure for hangover from last one

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... was nothing for paid parental leave, no adjustment to the low-income super tax offset, nothing to address the COVID-19 super gap, the gender super gap or the concerns of older, single women who are currently retiring into poverty. "You get super paid ...

Aussies regret ERS withdrawals: AIST poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... attention to four other areas of change in superannuation: the increase of the superannuation guarantee to 12%, the gender super gap, Treasury's proposed changes to proxy voting, and the Your Future, Your Super reforms' "ministerial powers" to ...

Super funds slam budget's super gap measures

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... Superannuation funds welcomed the budget's move to dump the $450 threshold, but called out a lack of measures to close the super gap. Last night's budget included five key decisions on superannuation. These were abolishing the $450 per month ...

No big losers in FY22 budget

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Australia and Women in Super, who have all pushed for the threshold's removal as a means of reducing the gender super gap. Retirees will also benefit from no longer being required to meet a work test before making voluntary contributions to super ...

Super gender gap widens for NSW women: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... spend 12 years less in the full-time workforce than men. ISA advocacy director Georgia Brumby said it is time the gender super gap in NSW is bridged. "NSW MPs have a choice they can fight for a super increase and to get super paid on every dollar earnt ...

Cairns women disadvantaged by super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... in retirement," it said. In their 20s, ISA found women from Cairns have slightly more super than men, but the gender super gap starts to open once they reach their 30s, when many women take time out of the workforce. The Australia Institute from the ...