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Gender equality progress recovers amid Barbie and Matildas effect in Australian society

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Key points: Women’s Index rose 0.2 points in the June qtr to 76.5 points with a recovery in gender financial equality progress helped by improvements in the gender gap and

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23 Aug 2023

Financy launches Impacter software to help improve accountability for diversity and inclusion in businesses

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Gender equality advocate Financy has launched a new cloud-based software designed to help businesses self-assess and improve business outcomes when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Impacter is

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27 Jun 2023

Lack of a gender equality target a missed opportunity

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The Federal Budget 2023 was on the right side of progress for gender equality and that’s something Financy absolutely welcomes. But there was still no sign of a gender equality

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11 May 2023

A slowing economy halts women’s financial progress in 2022

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Key Results: The Financy Women’s Index (FWX) slipped by 0.1 points to 76.2 points out of 100 in the December quarter 2022. The Index finished the 2022 calendar year in

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07 Mar 2023

Financy and UniSA partnership delivers tech platform to take diversity, equity and inclusion measurement to the next level

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Australian fintech Financy has partnered with the University of South Australia’s Centre for Workplace Excellence (CWeX) to develop Impacter – a new tech solution that helps organisations manage and prioritise

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07 Dec 2022

Women’s Index shows progress back on track despite alarming time frame to gender equality in education

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Key Results 73.3 points – The FWX rose 0.4 points in the Sept qtr, signalling gender equality progress helped by narrowing of the gender gaps in education, underemployment and board

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16 Nov 2022

Women’s Index shows progress in gender equality has been held back by pay gap and covid disruptions

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Regression in the gender pay gap and a stronger pickup in male employment growth over female in the June quarter has stifled a rebound in Australia’s progress to gender equality,

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22 Aug 2022

Women’s Index sheds light on big COVID-19 question – has gender equality improved?

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Key results The Financy Women’s Index (FWX) finished 2021 up 1.6% to 72.3 points with women’s financial progress and time to economic equality better than expected. The key drivers of

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14 Feb 2022

Young women left behind in progress to financial equality

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Key findings The Financy Women’s Index (FWX) rose 2% in the September quarter to 73.6 points helped by a closing of the gender gaps in the underemployment rate, monthly hours

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17 Nov 2021

Women’s financial progress recovery fractured and slowing on COVID shock

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Women’s progress to financial equality with men suffered a setback in the June quarter, as COVID shock factors put the brakes on the female-led recovery at the start of 2021,

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14 Sep 2021

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