Earlier this year in April, the Federal government released the provocatively titled report ‘A Husband is not a Retirement Plan – Achieving Economic Security for Women in Retirement’.
More recently, the annual Federal government Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Equal Pay Day report, which lists the inequalities between the salaries of women and men in Australia, was released on 8 September.
Both make for challenging reading for women when it comes to thinking about how to control their financial future, including how to best prepare, invest and save for retirement.