When Annabelle became pregnant with her first child, she and her partner made a decision: for the duration of her maternity leave, he would redirect a portion of his superannuation to her. “I am not the finance person but I’m very lucky that my partner works in that space and has a much broader understanding of it,” she says.
“And he has caught me up to speed with how screwed over women get when they go on maternity leave. He essentially crunched the numbers and figured out … what I had not been paid and paid it to me.”
