Angela Priestley

Women approaching retirement age currently do so with around a third less superannuation savings than their male counterparts.

Verve Super was determined to raise money from those who shared a passion for women’s economic equality, as well as for impact investing in female-led companies.

Progress on seeing women appointed to more corporate leadership positions we know is far too slow, but we don’t expect it to be virtually nonexistent.

The $1000 a month childcare payment is one of a number of policies that emerged after PEXA actively sought to ask people about the pain points they were experiencing.

Men still far outnumber women at the partnership level in Australia's legal profession, while women are increasingly leaving large firms for in-house roles and to start their own practices.

Parents working at health company Organon have been given up to three hours a day to support children in their remote learning activities during Sydney's current lockdown.

KPMG's new chief executive Andrew Yates has announced the mammoth boost to the firm's parental leave policy, as well as other changes additional leave programs that go beyond parenting.

In late 2019, ING became the first bank in Australia to give both parents equal access to 14 weeks paid leave, eliminating “primary” and “secondary” labels in the process.

How these giant shifts in work will contribute to future economic prosperity will depend on whether men and women access flexible working equally.

What the Pinky Glove founders are essentially creating is another “pink tax” — where women pay the additional cost of “feminine” marketing and colours for a product that is often already available or, worse, that they don’t need at all.

Men still take home an average $25,534 more than women annually, according to the WGEA's latest Gender Equality Scorecard.

Women have long dominated healthcare, aged care and childcare workforces. They are key to the innovation bolstering these sectors.