Gender Equality



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

Women have been highly critical of the male dominated focus of the 2020-21 Budget. Although the Budget Speech acknowledged that women were disproportionately affected by… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Economic Stimulus through a Gender Lens: Why the Budget Did Not Deliver

Income tax progressivity has been an entrenched characteristic of Australia’s personal income tax system, meaning that the average rate of tax (the total tax paid… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Progressivity and the Personal Income Tax Plan

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