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Equal Pay Day offers sobering reminder

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... Australian women will face financial hardship - especially in old age - if equality of pay is not addressed. The gender pay gap in Australia grew over the last year, Aware Super chief executive Deanne Stewart pointed out. According to the Workplace Gender ...

FPA to manage $1.5m scholarship mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... and create a talent pool and pipeline for diversity in business leadership participation and further close the gender pay gap." The scholarships encourage and assist women, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, to enter, re-enter and achieve leadership ...

Super gender gap widens for NSW women: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... behind the national median of $49,300 for females. While women, on average, earn considerably less than men, the gender pay gap has narrowed over the last 40 years, according to the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS). In 1981, average weekly ...

Super top ups increase: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... 79% of the amount of their male counterparts by the time they reach retirement - often feeling the effects of the gender pay gap and time out of the workforce to perform caregiver duties. "Without other assets like shares or investment properties to ...

Cairns women disadvantaged by super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... gain tax discount and franking credits are split across $42 billion for men and $18 billion that goes to women. "Gender pay gap, childcare, superannuation, and our research shows even Australia's system of tax concessions are stacked against women," ...

Tax concessions failing women: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... franking credits and, of the annual spend, $42 billion of the benefit goes to men and $18 billion goes to women. "Gender pay gap, childcare, superannuation, and our research shows even Australia's system of tax concessions are stacked against women," ...

Childcare costs drag women's nest egg

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... two-thirds of Aware Super members are female and every day we see the very real long-term impact of the current gender pay gap, and more time spent out of the paid workforce in a caring capacity, has on their long-term financial security," Aware chief ...

Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... organisation that doesn't tolerate discrimination in the workplace. Q: How do we most effectively address the gender pay gap? A: There's no silver bullet. Commit to flexible working policies, ensure employees have equal opportunities to progress ...

Shock statistics on gender gap on boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
New data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed that while the pay gap has decreased from 0.6%, women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership. WGEA reported that the national gender pay gap has dropped to 13.4% ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... improvement on the previous year. In February 2020, the fund's review of its efforts to increase diversity found that the gender pay gap had actually increased in favour of men from 12% to 17%. Future Super co-founder and chief executive Kirstin Hunter ...