Resources

Find research, case studies and tools to help your organisation take action against gender inequality issues in the workplace.

 

 

Gender strategy toolkit

Tools to help your workplace achieve gender equality.

Gender pay gap

Actions we can take in the workplace to reduce the gender pay gap.

Pay equity

Assistance to address pay equity problems in your organisation.

Women in leadership

The Agency showcases what real people and organisations are doing to improve gender equality in their own workplaces across Australia.

Gender equality and caring

Better support for carers in the workplace helps improve gender equality.

Parental leave

Support and protect working parents with good parental leave policy.

Flexible work

Flexibility is a key enabler of gender equality.

Recruitment and promotion

Eliminate gender bias that prevent career progression.

Gender equality and diversity

Understand how different factors intersect with gender equality in our society.

Family violence

Recognising family violence as a workplace issue and putting supports in place for employees.

Sex-based discrimination

Preventing sex-based discrimination in the workplace.

Employee consultation

Engage with employees when implementing gender equality strategies in your workplace.

Gender equality and men

Helping men access workplace flexibility and parental leave.

Small business

Support for small businesses wanting to manage gender equality issues.

Resources

Gender equitable recruitment and promotion

Gender bias is pervasive at work and in organisations, creating inequalities at every stage of the employment cycle. This insight paper highlights some of the research examining how gender bias operates at work and provides evidence-based suggestions for creating more equitable recruitment and promotion systems.

Gender equitable recruitment and promotion guide

Gender bias is pervasive at work and in organisations, creating inequalities at every stage of the employment cycle, from recruitment to selection to promotion. This leading practice guide provides evidence-based suggestions for creating more equitable hiring and promotion systems.

Gender segregation in Australia's workforce

This fact sheet looks at the features of ‘female-dominated’ and ‘male-dominated’ organisations, while highlighting the unequal distribution of women and men across industries and occupations.

Flexibility Diagnostic Tools

This toolkit provides the framework and practical guide to conducting a systematic diagnosis of ‘where are we now’.

Manager flexibility toolkit

The aim of this toolkit is to provide information and guidance on how to successfully implement flexible working arrangements to maximise the opportunities and benefits that flexibility brings.

Employee flexibility toolkit

The WGEA Employee Flexibility Toolkit helps employees understand what flexible working arrangements are, how to request them, and how to integrate flexible working practices into existing work arrangements.

Women in leadership: Lessons from Australian companies leading the way

The Business Council of Australia, McKinsey & Company and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency teamed up to undertake a study using three years of WGEA data and more than 40 interviews. The result, Women in Leadership: Lessons from Australian companies leading the way, provides an evidence-based recipe for dismantling barriers to women’s participation at senior levels and a correlation between representation of women in senior roles and the practice of normalising flexible work.