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Women’s super is dangerously low. Here’s how to improve yours Advertisement
The greatest gift you can give yourself as a woman is financial independence.
As society slowly moves towards gender pay equity it’s important to discuss how, as individual women, we can proactively close the gender retirement gap. Research from super fund Colonial First State found that women are more likely to report never having made plans for their financial future.
Taking time out of the workforce to have children can lead to many women having far lower super balances than their partners. Credit: Candice Epthorp
The average age women say they begin planning for retirement is 53, whereas men make an earlier start at age 48. In the same vein, one in th