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Lifelong economic wellbeing is at the core of economic Security4Women. Gender pay inequity has a lasting impact on women and their families and the gender pay gap is worsening – currently at 18%. An initial study funded by eS4W – What Business Wants – highlighted the paucity of awareness and lack of suitable resources for SMEs to address gender pay equity. This sector employees more than 1.5 million women but has to date been overlooked in the pay equity debate as the focus is on businesses with over 100 employees. The What Business Wants report clearly identified the need for better tools for the small business sector (20-100 employees) to both educate and help identify barriers to achieving gender pay equity.