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When we look back at 2019 so far, it is clear there is growing interest in equality for female athletes. There has been much focus on equal representation, equal opportunities and, the big one, equal pay for our female athletes.

Over the past five years of reporting, acting on gender equality and identifying pay inequality within organisations has increased.

More men are finding themselves caught in the crosshairs between two diverging expectations: traditional breadwinner and modern father.

In the lead-up to the announcement of the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Order of Australia awards, community organisation Honour a Woman and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency are highlighting the current gender inequalities in the awards system and asking all Australians to nominate more women for awards.

Workplace Gender Equality Agency Director Libby Lyons has once again been included in Apolitical’s internationally-renowned list of the top gender equality policy influencers from around the world.

There is just under one week remaining in the 2019 WGEA report submission period, with reports due by Friday 31 May 2019.

At Diageo, from 1 July 2019 all Australian employees will be eligible to take 26 weeks paid family leave regardless of gender, carer status or length of service.

Flexible work is good for business and good for employees. The evidence is clear. To celebrate 22 May, Flexible Working Day, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (‘WGEA’) is asking all organisations to think about how they could become a little ‘flexier’.

ANZAC Day is our national day of reflection and commemoration. We remember the brave men and women who served on battlefields and in peacekeeping missions around the world.

Last month we invited all report contacts to complete a survey on the current online reporting system and the results are in.