Latest news
2/3 employers offer paid parental leave to employees. Find out which employers offer more than the average 14 weeks.
Equal Pay Day is a national opportunity to recognise progress on closing the gender pay gap and focus on the work still to be done.
Key statistics
These critical data points show how Australia is making progress on improving gender equality in workplaces. Uncover more using the WGEA Data Explorer.
Need help with reporting?
This strategy assists relevant employers to understand their obligations and responsibilities under the WGE Act.
Need to report your gender equality data to WGEA? Head to our Reporting Portal to log-in, or register your organisation.
You can find step-by-step instructions, answers to frequently asked questions and help for resolving data issues in the WGEA Reporting Guide.
Gender equality targets
Find the answers to the most common employer questions about the new gender equality targets legislation.
Employers who achieve gender equality using targets do these things, research finds.
This guide will help you confidently select targets from the menu that are realistic, achievable and meaningful for your workplace.
Employer case studies
Women were disappearing from this factory. But a carefully planned decision to alter their advertising saw an influx of applications.
Flexible part-time management roles are hard to find, especially in law firms. But this employer used job-sharing to retain talent effectively.
Find out the process this public sector employer used to reduce their gender pay gap from 10.5% to just 1%.
Recent publications
Get the national, industry and employer size overview of all WGEA's data.
View the employer gender pay gaps and see the national and industry trends.
The 2025 Gender Equity Insights report finds organisations who take action to improve gender equality have lower staff turnover, more women in leadership and better shareholder value.
Popular employer resources
Book into one of our employer masterclasses to learn how to conduct a gender pay gap analysis, build an action plan, select gender equality targets or design roles for part-time.
WGEA's Gender Pay Gap Analysis Guide helps employers to plan and execute a gender pay gap analysis. This analysis will identify the drivers of the gender pay gap in the workplace.
WGEA's Action Planning Playbook lists evidence-informed actions shown to effectively address areas of gender inequality identified in a comprehensive gender pay gap analysis.
WGEA's Action Planning Tool helps employers find ways they can improve gender equality in the workplace using the information reported to the agency and publicly available on WGEA's Data Explorer.
Employers with 500 or more employees must have a policy or strategy for each of the 6 gender equality indicators. WGEA's GEI policy guides detail the key items employers should have in each policy.
Resources to support employers to develop parental leave policies, encourage men to take up parental leave and support all employees to return to work.
What we do
Australian private sector and Commonwealth Public Sector employers with 100 or more employees report information to WGEA against 6 gender equality indicators by law each year.
WGEA supports employers to select and meet or demonstrate improvement against gender equality targets.
WGEA publishes key insights reports based on the information employers report to us and summaries of current research on areas of workplace gender equality.
The Workplace Gender Equality Citation encourages, recognises and celebrates employers' achievement and commitment to achieving gender equality in Australian workplaces.
WGEA supports employers to take action to improve gender equality in the workplace with online masterclass learning, direct advisory services and online guides, tools and resources.