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In a speech to the Women in Mining Summit, Christine Castley unpacked the gender pay gap data to show what it actually means for women at work.
Key statistics
These critical data points show how Australia is making progress on improving gender equality in workplaces. Uncover more using the WGEA Data Explorer.
What we do
Australian private sector and Commonwealth Public Sector employers with 100 or more employees report information to WGEA against 6 gender equality indicators by law each year.
WGEA publishes the information employers report to us on pay, gender-balance, parental leave and flexible working policies and actions to prevent sexual harassment.
WGEA provides online and in-person learning, direct advisory services and 'how to' guides for reporting employers.
WGEA publishes insights using our extensive database, we partner with organisations on research papers and provide summaries of Australian and international evidence.
The Workplace Gender Equality Citation encourages, recognises employers who are dedicated to continually improving equality in their workplaces.
WGEA publishes case studies of employers who have taken action to improve gender equality in their workplace.
Our data publications
View the employer gender pay gaps and see the national and industry trends.
Ages and Wages analyses differences in employment between women and men by age revealing key insights for employers keen to retain talented employees.
Get the national, industry and employer size overview of all WGEA's data.
Employer case studies
Women were disappearing from this factory. But a carefully planned decision to alter their advertising saw an influx of applications.
Flexible part-time management roles are hard to find, especially in law firms. But this employer used job-sharing to retain talent effectively.
Find out the process this public sector employer used to reduce their gender pay gap from 10.5% to just 1%.
Popular employer resources
Book a masterclass to learn how to conduct a gender pay gap analysis, build an action plan, select gender equality targets or design roles for part-time.
This online guide helps employers to conduct a comprehensive gender pay gap analysis to identify the drivers of inequality in the workplace.
Use this online guide to find evidence-informed actions to improve the areas of inequality commonly identified in a comprehensive gender pay gap analysis.
Add your own data into the Action Planning Tool to obtain a list of key actions that could improve gender equality in your workplace.
These 6 online guides help employers to build stronger policies for each of the 6 gender equality indicators.
Find out how other employers are taking action to improve their workplaces in our case study library.
Gender equality targets
Find the answers to the most common employer questions about the new gender equality targets legislation.
Employers who achieve gender equality using targets do these things, research finds.
This guide will help you confidently select targets from the menu that are realistic, achievable and meaningful for your workplace.
Need help with reporting?
This strategy assists relevant employers to understand their obligations and responsibilities under the WGE Act.
Need to report your gender equality data to WGEA? Head to our Reporting Portal to log-in, or register your organisation.
You can find step-by-step instructions, answers to frequently asked questions and help for resolving data issues in the WGEA Reporting Guide.