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1 Workplace Gender Equality Agency. 2 Her-Pulse Women + Politics Survey | Bauer Media Story 54 Research, March 2019. All Women 18-64 N=1093. Weighted to Women 18-64 in regional and metro areas. 3 Roy Morgan, 2018. 4 EY Sweeney, Australian Financial Attitudes and Behaviour Tracker (wave 5), March 2017. 5 ‘For Richer, For Poorer: Divorce in Australia’, NATSEM and AMP. 6 'Retiring into Poverty', National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group. 7 Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Report, 2018. 8 Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) 2017 Financial Capability Survey. 9 Deloitte Access Economics’ 2018 Financial Consciousness Index.

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