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Financial independence information tailored to women – online resources

Consultations with Victoria’s women have shown that women want easily understood information that is tailored to their financial situation and life stage.

The Office of Women’s Policy has produced fact sheets (PDF 735 kb) or (Word 70 kb) which focus on the situation of women and their money. Topics include:

Women and Superannuation
Women and Money Management
Wealth and Investing
Women Confidence in Financial Decision Making

The following resources provide practical information that can assist women in making better financial decisions.

WIRE Women’s Information has a range of information sheets on women and money, including:

Struggling with pregnancy and finances
Property and Separation
Women and Debt

The Australian Government’s

Financial Literacy Foundation has recently developed

fact sheets tailored for women. The fact sheets cover a range of topics including:

Money and the single woman
Teaching your kids about money
What does it all mean? Understanding the language of money
Managing on a low income

A useful and informative brochure has been developed by the Australian Taxation Office to assist women to boost their retirement savings, with information on how to:

make the most of your super
increase your super savings, and
working towards being financially secure in retirement.

Read the

Women and superannuation - taking control of your future brochure.

Women's Financial Literacy research report by the WIRE Women’s Information on the barriers experienced by women in achieving financial literacy in 2007.

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