Lodging your Gender Equality Report

This page provides a summary of the steps for reporting contacts to lodge a Gender Equality Report. Each step has a link to the relevant section of the Reporting Guide.

Once your Gender Equality Report is complete, it must be lodged.

If you have not yet completed your Report, refer to Reporting steps.
If you have completed your Report, refer to the lodgement steps in the table below.
For guidance on how to lodge your Report in the Employer Portal, refer to Step 4 in the table below.

Step	Action required	Links to relevant pages
1	Complete your Gender Equality Report Follow all steps required by reporting contacts to prepare and lodge a Report. This includes: completing all reporting documents resolving any data anomalies.	Reporting steps Resolving data anomalies Resolving data anomalies: Step-by-step instructions
2	Generate your Public Reports Once you have successfully completed your Questionnaire, WMS and WPP, you must generate and download your Public Reports to share with your CEO (or equivalent) for review sign-off before you can lodge the Gender Equality Report: Public Report – Questionnaire: this document displays your responses from the Questionnaire. Public Report – Employee Data Tables: this document displays the data tables covering composition of your workforce and employee movements from the WPP and WMS (at either the ABN level, or corporate group-wide).	Document generation
3	CEO sign-off (approval) Have your CEO (or equivalent) review your Public Report and sign off.	CEO sign-off
4	Lodge your Gender Equality Report Once your CEO has reviewed and signed off on your Report, complete the declarations and consents process, and lodge your Report within the Employer Portal. For step-by-step instructions on lodging your Report, refer to: Lodging your report: Step-by-step instructions Note: to lodge your Gender Equality Report, you must declare: any information you have provided in the Questionnaire free-text responses that may have any privacy impacts or need privacy considerations that the data provided by you on behalf of your employer is accurate and correct. Once the declarations are complete, press 'Submit'. You will receive a confirmation email after a successful submission.	Employer Portal access Lodging your report: Step-by-step instructions
5	Review your report within 28 days of lodging If you lodge your report within the lodgement period or an approved extension period, provided the extension period ends at least four weeks before 31 August, you will have 28 days to review and amend the report. After this 28-day review period, no further edits can be made. If you lodge your report less than 28 days before 31 August, you will only have the remaining days until 31 August for review. For example, if you lodge your report on 17 August, you will have 14 days to edit your report. You will not be able to edit your report after 31 August. The reporting documents (Questionnaire, Workforce Management Statistics and Workplace Profile) cannot be edited once the 28-day review period has ended. If changes are needed, you must log into the Employer Portal to: update your reporting document/s (if you re-enter a section and make any edits to an uploaded file or answer, you will reopen your report) resolve any outstanding data anomalies obtain CEO approval for the edited report, and re-lodge your report during the review period. Important: The 28-day review period is only guaranteed to employers who lodge within the 2-month lodgement period or within an approved extension period, provided the extension period ends at least four weeks before 31 August. The 28-day review period does not apply to selecting targets. Selected targets cannot be changed once they’ve been submitted.	Reporting dates CEO sign-off
6	Compliance requirements Know your reporting compliance requirements and important reporting dates. These include: completing all notification and access requirements providing the Executive Summary and Industry Benchmark Report to governing body (if any) if you are a Designated Relevant Employer, meeting the Gender Equality Standards requirements and Gender Equality Targets requirement.	Reporting compliance Reporting dates Notification and access requirements
7	Follow the next steps after lodgement Follow all steps required by relevant employers after successfully lodging a Gender Equality Report.	Next steps: After lodgement
8	Certificate of compliance When a relevant employer lodges its Gender Equality Report within the lodgement period (or an approved extension period) and meets all reporting compliance requirements, it will be deemed compliant with the Act and therefore eligible to receive a certificate of compliance.	Certificate of compliance