These Aren’t Just Figures. These Are Women’s Lives.
Imagine a country where a woman of sixty is the safest she has ever been.
Imagine a country where a woman of sixty is the safest she has ever been.
Women are ageing into poverty — the compounding result of a lifetime of lower pay, unpaid care, domestic violence in its many forms, and a superannuation gap that widens rather than closes. Much of what put them there was never even recognised as harm while it was happening: financial control, coercion, decades of labour treated as simply what a woman does.
Madame Monet Social Impact answers that directly, through eight enterprises working together. Each one turns a different overlooked skill or need into real income, real housing, real connection, and real work — and every bit of it belongs to the woman who earns it.
Five years earlier than the point where the data shows the crisis becomes visible, because prevention only works if it begins before the fall.
To an English ear, Monet sounds like money — a plain and unglamorous word wearing the clothes of one of the most celebrated painters who ever lived, because the women this exists for have rarely been offered that kind of reverence before.
A minimum of 20% of every dollar of profit across all the social enterprises is reinvested: The Emerald Ladies, through Women Of OZ, long-term housing, and the lawyers a woman needs when she goes.
It buys the platform to advertise and to run a business. Ten dollars a month to run a business, and you cannot get fairer than that. Every dollar you earn on top of it stays with you — sell four hundred dollars of shortbread this month and you keep four hundred dollars.
Your ten runs your business, and belonging comes with it. Belonging here is settled the moment you arrive.
Esmeralda is paid for by the property owner. LOIS is paid for by employers and agencies. Women list free at both, and they always will.