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Lowest ever national gender pay gap good result but still more to be done

MEDIA RELEASE: What's Missing Matters on 2023 Equal Pay Day

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has announced that Equal Pay Day for 2023 will be August 25, with women in Australia working for 56 days after the end of the financial year to make up the difference caused by the gender pay gap.

Equal Pay Day 2023

WGEA statement on Closing the Gender Pay Gap Bill

WGEA welcomes legislative reforms to strengthen workplace gender equality

Media Release: Biennial report on workplace gender equality progress

Minister for Women, Senator the Hon. Katy Gallagher, has tabled the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) biennial Progress Report in Parliament today.

Media Release: Employers committed to taking action on gender equality have lower gender pay gaps

Media Release: National gender pay gap of 13.3% just a fraction of the real cost on women

Gender equality in the workplace is still a big issue

There's a temptation to read a book like Lessons in Chemistry and think the problems women faced in the 1960s are solved. The opposite is true.

Media Release: Stagnant gender pay gap a $26,600 wake-up call for employers to pick up the pace

Progress to close the gender pay gap between Australian women and men has stalled for the first time in 2022, according to the latest annual data released today by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).