Businesses that take action to improve workplace gender equality are often more profitable and productive. The policies and strategies they implement help to improve recruitment, retention and reputation.
This page contains tools, guides and case studies to help you take action to improve workplace gender equality in your business. Scroll down to browse all the areas where you can make a difference. Or use the left-hand column to jump straight to the section you need.
Employer gender pay gaps
The WGEA Gender Pay Gap Analysis Guide helps employers to plan and execute a pay and composition analysis in order to identify the drivers of their gender pay gap.
Employers have the opportunity to provide a Statement that gives context to their gender pay gap results when WGEA publishes employer gender pay gaps in early 2024.
WGEA's Communications 10 Point guide is for communications teams and company representatives who are responsible for talking to key audiences about your organisation's approach to gender equality.
Confused by the gender pay gap? WGEA's gender pay gap guide explains what the gender pay gap is, what it isn't, how it is measured and what causes it.
Gender Equality Strategy
Make a business case for promoting gender equality in your workplace.
WGEA's gender strategy guide shows you how to analyse, design, implement and review changes that will improve workplace gender equality.
WGEA's Gender Equality diagnostic tool will help you pinpoint equality gaps in your organisation.
This useful guide will help you bring employees along on your journey to workplace gender equality.
Gender diversity in leadership
Increasing the number of women in leadership reduces the gender pay gap, improves profitability and productivity.
Research shows women face a backlash negotiating salary and men face a backlash for negotiating flexible work.
Use this guide to help identify and remove gender bias from interviews, selection criteria, employee feedback and 'merit' promotion.
Need help to prove that gender bias in recruitment and promotion exists? This page runs through all the research and studies.
Evidence-based insights from Australian companies on how to dismantle barriers to women's participation at senior levels.
In 2016, Griffith University launched a program to increase the number of women in leadership. Find out what they did that resulted in 10 women being promoted.
Kimberly-Clark Australia's Millicent Mill site has zero female hires in 2019. Find out how changes in recruitment resulted the workforce becoming 50:50.
Flexible work
WGEA's flexible work guide details best practice for employers and includes a diagnostic tool to check how your organisation is performing.
Calculate your organisation's flexibility score and find out how you can improve.
Support for parents and carers
How to build a business case, implement and review a parental leave policy.
The impact of caring on the workplaces, and how employers can support their employees.
Men make up 42% of all parental leave taken at John Holland. Find out how, and why, they did it.
How Stockland improved return to work rates by 20% and employee engagement by changing its parental leave policy.
Harm prevention
How to tackle and eliminate these issues in the workplace.
Resources to help implement family violence policies and support.
Help for small business
Find out what small businesses can do to improve workplace gender equality.
WGEA's 3-step pay equity guide will help small businesses address pay equity issues.
These two examples show how a small business can conduct a pay gap analysis.