Gender Equality



The Coalition’s Super Home Buyer Scheme is slated to enable first homebuyers to use 40% of their super balance, up to a maximum of $50,000… Read More ›

Harnessing Super for Dream Homes With Not So Dreamy Super Balances

Using the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) 1% and 2% individual taxpayer data for the period 2003-04 to 2018-19 income years, we reconfirm that, even before… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2022] Taxpayer Distortion With Respect to Gender and Age

The widespread closure of schools and day care centers during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which mothers still provide the bulk of… Read More ›

Gender-Neutral Parental Leave: Enforcing or Disrupting Gender Norms?

The gender superannuation (or ‘super’) gap is a persistent problem that often receives less attention than the gender wage gap. The scale of this issue… Read More ›

Decomposing Australia’s Gender Superannuation Gap

The 2021 Intergenerational Report (IGR) looks forward 40 years to project future trends in Australian economic and fiscal sustainability. The IGR is released every five… Read More ›

Accounting for Care: The Intergenerational Report Fails to Value Parenting

While the government’s increased spending across the economy is welcome, the budget falls short of the government’s long term resilience and sustainability goals, Miranda Stewart… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2021] Structural Changes, but No Sustainability Reset

Domestic violence committed on female partners in heterosexual couples occurs significantly more frequently when the woman earns more than the man — according to our… Read More ›

A Shocking Statistical Fact That Will Change the Way You Think About the Gender Pay Gap

Working mothers get something in the budget, but not much, and not for long. Before the budget the second earner in a couple with young… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Blink and You’ll Miss It: What the Budget Did for Working Mums

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