Women in Social Economic Research Cluster
Women in Social Economic Research (WiSER) is committed to producing high quality quantitative and qualitative feminist research on a broad range of issues that women identify as important to their capacity for achieving equity and autonomy.
Goals
To foster positive change in women’s economic and social outcomes by:
- Extending economic theory and research
- Fostering interdisciplinary feminist research
- Supporting a thriving postgraduate research culture
- Pursuing grant income and industry linkages
- Contributing high quality research and publications
- Engaging in current policy and community debates
Current research areas
- Mature age employment
- Retirement income and superannuation
- Gender pay gap
- Gender wealth gap
- Gender segregation
- Housing and gender
- Gender budgeting
- Intra-household allocations, bargaining and entitlements