Challenges facing adult women, single mothers and women after retiring from full-time work.

It seems that more and more women are choosing to be single, especially among educated women. Unfortunately, this tendency does not translate into an increase in the number of women in positions of power.

A protester holds a placard during the Women’s March 4 Justice in Canberra, March 15, 2021. Image © Mick Tsikas / AAP Images.

The lack of numbers of women in senior positions or in decision-making leadership continues to hamper women's progress in career issues, pay and discrimination in all its forms.

Kate Walton is an author and women's rights advocate. She told Sri Dean that gender bias, unequal pay, security, mental and physical abuse, lack of decent family support are some of the challenges women face today.

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