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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).

Passage of Respect at Work Bill legislates federal public sector gender equality reporting

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) welcomes the passage of the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 today.

MEDIA RELEASE: Greater gender balance across industries key to closing pay gap

BCEC | WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2022 has just been released. Find out the key findings in this media release. 

Register for the BCEC | WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2022 release

Register for the 2022 BCEC WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2022 report release on October 13 2022 to find out how gender equality differs across Australia by location.