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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. 

Meet the gender equality change makers: Leading Australian businesses in 2022 announced

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has today named the latest list of Australia’s Employers of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE).

WGEA welcomes the release of the review of Australia’s national gender equality reporting framework

We welcome the recommendations from the Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012. These recommendations draw from leading practice around the world about how to improve gender equality in workplaces.

 

Australia’s new national GPG of 13.8% released; employers urged to take action as IWD approaches

Twelve days out from International Women’s Day, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has today announced Australia’s new national gender pay gap of 13.8%, a drop of 0.4 percentage points over the past 6 months from 14.2%.

Australian employers paying up for mums and dads on parental leave

New data released today (8 February) reveals 3 in 5 employers are now offering paid parental leave, the vast majority of those making paid leave equally available for both parents.

Australian-first research on Indigenous women’s working lives reveals Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mums and carers most at risk at work

A new report out today has for the first time examined the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women inside Australian workplaces, revealing that Indigenous mums and carers are the most likely group to experience discrimination.

International Equal Pay Day: Myth busting the gender pay gap in Australia

In the lead up to International Equal Pay Day on 18 September, WGEA Director Mary Wooldridge wrote this piece published on Lifehacker Australia with five key facts about the gender pay gap in Australia today.

Equal Pay Day: Looking back, looking forward

How did you mark Equal Pay Day this year? Here at WGEA it’s a bittersweet occasion – progress on closing the gap has slowed (and in fact gone backwards this year), but it is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the issues and solutions.

(Finally) Equal Pay Day, 31 August 2021

Australian women in 2021 have had to work about two months more, on average, to earn the same as men did last financial year.

Equal Pay Day 2021 recognises that it has taken until 31 August to close the national gender pay gap, which is 14.2%, a rise of 0.8 percentage points over the last six months.