The women's issue.

Add superannuation payments - that's another 23.4% in savings at retirement, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars extra in your nest egg, according to Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) research. And if you want your investment portfolio well protected in times when markets are at their most volatile, you're more likely to do better if your fund manager is female, according to Investment Metrics. To name a few, there are Chief Executive Women (CEW) for female business leaders, women's investment networks around the country and corporate-backed programs like Girls Who Invest, sponsored by fund manager PIMCO. [Extracted from the article]