Angela Meyer

No, it's really not true.

We did a lot of research for our book and we discovered some rather alarming statistics.

Mainly, the one that really sort of stood out for me was around the pink tax, which is not actually a real tax, but it's the cost really of being a woman.

And there was a really interesting study out of New York, and they were actually able to measure the pink tax, and it came out at US$188,000 over a woman's lifetime.

Well, yeah.

And we, you know, we also have the gender retirement gap in New Zealand, which is sitting at 25%.

And, you know, in the course of writing the book, we were like, well, if we didn't pay the pink tax, that would pretty much fix everything.

our gender retirement gap.

So no, things are not, nothing is, you know, all is not well, actually, in lady land in terms of our financial wellbeing.

And we also, you probably know that stat about 80% of New Zealand women rate their financial wellbeing as low or very low.

And we also did some research called Rich in Context.

And this is looking at the socio-cultural determinants of financial wellbeing.

And only, and this is across Australia and New Zealand, all genders, and only 29% of the people, our sample, were financially well.

And women make up a very small percentage of that.

And those that were financially well tended to be white Australians who were older.

And in couples.

And in couples.

So the next feminist wave is financial, is it?

I genuinely think it is.

You know, I've spent probably the last 20 years of my life working in gender equity in various different forms.