Resources

Find research, case studies and tools to help your organisation take action against gender inequality issues in the workplace.

 

 

Gender strategy toolkit

Tools to help your workplace achieve gender equality.

Gender pay gap

Actions we can take in the workplace to reduce the gender pay gap.

Pay equity

Assistance to address pay equity problems in your organisation.

Women in leadership

The Agency showcases what real people and organisations are doing to improve gender equality in their own workplaces across Australia.

Gender equality and caring

Better support for carers in the workplace helps improve gender equality.

Parental leave

Support and protect working parents with good parental leave policy.

Flexible work

Flexibility is a key enabler of gender equality.

Recruitment and promotion

Eliminate gender bias that prevent career progression.

Gender equality and diversity

Understand how different factors intersect with gender equality in our society.

Family violence

Recognising family violence as a workplace issue and putting supports in place for employees.

Sex-based discrimination

Preventing sex-based discrimination in the workplace.

Employee consultation

Engage with employees when implementing gender equality strategies in your workplace.

Gender equality and men

Helping men access workplace flexibility and parental leave.

Small business

Support for small businesses wanting to manage gender equality issues.

Resources

Wages and Ages: Mapping the Gender Pay Gap by Age

Although Australian women enrol in and complete higher education and enter the labour market at a higher proportion than men, they are still substantially less likely to work full-time across all age groups and less likely to reach the highest earning levels. 

The Wages and Ages: Mapping the Gender Pay Gap by Age data series is the first time WGEA data has been broken down by age to track these patterns. 

 

How employers are flexing differently after the pandemic

Australian workplaces have embraced flexibility like never before. In fact, according to the results from the 2021 WGEA employer census, four in five workplaces now have a formal flexible work policy or strategy.

Flexible work post-COVID

The COVID pandemic disrupted the way we work and has illustrated that traditional ways of working, which placed great value on presenteeism, are now firmly in the past

Gari Yala (Speak the Truth): Gendered Insights

In 2020 the Gari Yala project documented the workplace experiences and recommendations of over 1,000 Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander workers. This follow-up report took these results and analysed them through a gendered lens, to better understand the experience of Indigenous women and men at work.

Gender equitable procurement and supply chains

Gender equitable procurement and supply chain strategies involve organisational procurement of goods and services, which are designed to improve gender equality objectives in either the procuring organisation or the supplying organisation.

The future of work and gender

The ‘future of work’ has captured public imagination in recent years as business leaders, policymakers, media pundits and academics debate whether and how work as we know it will continue. This insights paper addresses the future of work debate, considers its shortcomings and reframes the discussion in gendered terms.