Publication Categoriy: Women
Older Women & Housing Mercy Foundation Research
Women over 55 are at great risk of financial and housing insecurity due to systemic and compounding factors such as: Lack of superannuation Working part time or casually throughout their lives ...
Experiences of food insecurity for Australian women and children affected by domestic and family violence
People with limited physical and economic access to the quantity and quality of food they need to live an active and healthy life are food insecure. In Australia, women are more vulnerable to food insecurity...
Re imagining Home Research Report
The author Liz Lennon hopes that older single women reading this will understand an critical fact. This is that systemic and political issues and failures are what has placed them in poverty, housing stress...
Women’s Housing Needs in Regional Australia: Summary Report
From the Chair of YWCA National Housing: On behalf of YWCA National Housing and with the support of YWCA Australia, I am proud to present this report ‘Women’s Housing Needs in Regional...
Resetting Policies to End Family Homelessness
Abstract Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless...
Australia should brace itself for a tsunami of homeless women over the next 20 years
If a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its elderly and vulnerable, Australia is set to fall shamefully short. Women aged over 50 are the fastest growing group of people at risk of...
What Gender Pay Gap? Big little lies?
Australia’s gender pay gap currently sits at 14%. Australian full-time working women take home an average of $1485 per week in pay, while full-time working men take home an average weekly pay packet of...
Homelessness has grown by 31% for women aged 55 & older
The number of women aged 55 and over who experience homelessness in Australia has grown by 31% between 2011 and 2016. This trend is expected to continue unless social housing provision is expanded, given the...
Older Womens Housing Program Tackles Growing Crises
In recent years, we have seen an unprecedented number of women facing housing insecurity (even homelessness) for the first time when they are older. Between 2011 and 2016 there was a 31 per cent increase in...