New modelling by Aware Super has found Australia’s national gender pay gap of 13.0% will equate to a $93,000* deficit in the superannuation balances of women when compared to Australian men at retirement. Gender pay inequality is one of five significant examples […]
The Financial Review has released their annual Young Rich List, which countdowns the wealthiest Australians aged 40 and under. Unfortunately, SheSociety’s name was not featured, but hey- there is always next year right? Celebrating its 15-year anniversary, the Young Rich List, it […]
Maud Butler was a sixteen-year-old waitress from Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley when the First World War broke out. Like many women of the time, she was very keen to contribute to Australia’s war effort, but found herself prevented from doing […]
While most Australians don’t realise it, they are regularly in touch with one of Australia’s toughest and formidable campaigners for equal rights. The portrait of Edith Cowan, who became Australia’s first female parliamentarian in March 1921, aged 60, is on our $50 […]
The Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast in April was preceded 80 years ago this month by the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney involving around 500 athletes and officials from 15 nations. Timed to coincide with Sydney’s sesqui-centenary (150 years since […]
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