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Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complex

  • Written by Kathleen Riach, Associate Professor in Management, Monash University
Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complexWomen asked to draw their careers draw circles, zig zags and snakes and ladders. Shutterstock

This week’s International Day of Older Persons reminds us Australia has made an international commitment to work towards the eradication of poverty in old age, and that at least one side of politics, Labor, has developed a suite of policies it says...

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