Last time I checked, women were spending around 300 million $ a year
on Botox. I have no idea of the cost of all those silicone breast
implants, even more shoes and clothes etc.

The point is that its well within the financial capacity of women
to change their priorities and put away a bit more for their
retirement, if they choose to do so, as the evidence shows.

What is certainly becoming clear is that women are far better
at complaining and lobbying then are men, who simply get on with
it.

So Vanna, if and when this increase comes in for super, are you then suggesting a wage freeze for that year?
that will be the real test to put this argument to bed.

As Yabby says, women spend lots more than men on NON ESSENTIALS. Men's haircut, $20, womens, more like $100.

That's just the beginning.

Hasbeen,
How come you were able to retire with so much money. Didn’t you get divorced?

Yabby,
Not only are women spending big on Botox, Australian women have a higher rate of plastic surgery than US women.

They need all that because they are “carers”.

So men have to work longer and longer hours to pay women more money so they can retire in style, after a lifetime of reading women’s magazines, gettng their hair done, shopping for that new look, watching day time TV, gossiping on the phone, getting their divorces, and whinging.

The essence of the modern woman.

Rehctub,
Superannuation is often a part of a salary package, and a salary is not a free gift from the employer.

If the superannuation levy increases from 9% to 12%, and company profits do not increase because of this (unlikely), then the employer simply reduces the next pay increase (most likely).

Vanna that was way back in the 70s, when she shot through while I was in PNG. She got my Ozzie assets, but no kids so no maintenance.

When I came back I kept buying deep water waterfront properties in out of the way areas, at just the right time, to build myself a new yacht. One I payed $7500 for brought $280,000 just 3 or 4 years later. Built simple but nice weekenders on a couple of them too.

Each time I found a better one I bought it, for peanuts at the time. Then those areas were "found" & they all appreciated like there was no tomorrow. As an old mate says, it's no good getting old, if you don't get lucky, & I did.

It's not all that much money, but then, as I was saying, you don't need all that much to live well, if your kids have gone, & you're debt free.

My EX got all of my accrued Super(and naturally kept all her own) along with 80% of our combined assets in the false DV allegation fueled divorce that she initiated . At 41 years of age I had to start all over again, along with paying 11 years of inflated "mothers lifestyle support" aka CSA payments, which saw her receive regular tax free gratuities ( I had to earn $50,000 PA to pay her the approx $25,000 she received in the fist year post divorce.) I suspect she will do just fine in retirement, she can retire younger and has a greater life expectancy to enjoy the fruits of her lies and deception.

So any divorced women who is not well catered for in retirement can only blame herself for inadequately screwing her ex, or inadequately providing for herself post divorce .

Single women, your in the same boat as single blokes - you make the choices you live with the consequences, you know equality!

Widows ? sorry ladies same same, you should have insured your ATM husband, how inconsiderate of him to die, before you had a chance to screw him in divorce.

Of course all men will retire sitting pretty, nope no men live in poverty post retirement, so we don't need to discuss them and factor them into to the debate. We just need to keep widening the gender divide by focusing only on the well-being of women. Thanks feminism for the wonderful effect you are having on our society.

Some fine women hating quotes here - almost freudian. Thank God the women involved with some of these blokes are free of them.

Now back to the subject. Australia's productive output rose by one full percentage point in the 70s and 80s, in large part to the rise of women in the workforce. For many, their thanks will be the old age pension, which is something the introduction of the Superannuation Guarantee was trying to avoid. More super saved adds ballast against offshore recessionary fall out.

Current and future generations of women will do much better as they are better educated and will have a longer working span to make contributions of 12 percent or maybe even 15 per cent.

I think the future will be a scary place for some of the male posters here. Girls are already soaring in academic prowess at school and universities. They will earn more than men and the silly snide comments about women who 'can't do this' and 'can't do that' by the old guard will ensure their blood stock withers on the vine. Their kind will be breed out by discerning women.