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Voices down: Women staying quiet about retirement worries

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2026
... 40s, only 19% feel confident in contrast to 40% of men. AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said the national gender gap in financial literacy is more severe than peer countries, such as the US, Germany and the UK. "More than one in three Australian ...

'Outdated' law gating teenagers from thousands of dollars in super: Industry

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... the government to scrap the "outdated" law that denies super to most under-18 workers, which is also increasing the gender gap and costing women up to $11,000 at retirement. The new analysis comes as a Pyxis survey found 73% of Australians support the ...

Super on paid parental leave to reduce gender gap: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
The introduction of superannuation contributions on paid parental leave (PPL) is set to boost women's retirement savings by $7200, according to new research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Superannuation contributions ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... less super than men. Schubert urged a swift policy reversal, saying making super on PPL option would widen the super gender gap. "Telling new mums to cash out their parental leave super payments is a deeply worrying departure from the longstanding bipartisan ...

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... two-thirds of LISTO recipients are women - making a push to lift the LISTO a targeted measure to help close the super gender gap." However, SMC chief executive Misha Schubert still heaped praise on the government for the payday super reforms, which she ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... metrics by the World Economic Forum. But their representation falls behind in the workforce. According to the Global Gender Gap Index, Australia lags it comes to the economic participation of women behind global peers. In 2006, Australia ranked 12th ...

QIC backs new venture capital initiative

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... teams in Queensland are women, and that drops to one in 10 at the General Partner level," Baker said. "We recognise the gender gap is a very real challenge and there is work to be done. Particularly as Queensland's VC ecosystem continues to grow ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
The World Economic Forum released its Global Gender Gap Report for 2024 revealing that, at the current pace, it will take another 134 years - equivalent to five generations - to achieve full gender parity. Globally, the gender gap has closed by just ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... "It's a watershed reform that will powerfully strengthen retirement savings for Australian mums and help to narrow the gender gap at retirement." Wages boost for feminised industries Schubert said the anticipated pay rises for highly feminised industries ...

TelstraSuper sweetens parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... additional $42,000 in retirement. "TelstraSuper recognises the need for more government measures to help close the super gender gap, so as an employer we wanted to explore how we might improve the retirement outcomes for our own employees," TelstraSuper ...
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