For more than 10 years WIRE has been undertaking research and training development that expands our knowledge of women’s financial well-being and family violence. This body of work has tackled issues such as:
- Addressing women’s financial needs across the life course
- Unpacking the gendered social and structural barriers to women’s financial empowerment and well-being
- Deepening our understanding of how societal norms and stereotypes shape how women relate to money, perceive themselves as independent financial decision makers and learn how to be money managers
- Raising the profile of financial abuse as an insidious form of family violence and emphasising that this abuse often persists long after separation
- Delivering WIRE’s Purse Project in 2016, which broke important ground by delivering a targeted financial capability education program to 79 women affected by family violence and 65 community services to professionals around building women’s financial well-being
- Delivering targeted training in financial abuse and financial capabilities to 154 family violence workers
- What is an appropriate private sector response to financial abuse