Gender Equality

The latest WGEA data confirms that when Australian employers take action- the gender pay gap declines. Five years of WGEA data shows that year-on-year employer action to address pay equity has increased and year-on-year the gender pay gap has decreased.

This year’s WGEA data shows that year-on-year the gender pay gap has trended downward each year However, for the fifth year in a row, the gender pay gap persists across all industry and occupations.

Today, alongside the launch of WGEA’s fifth year of data, we have also launched a brand new way for you to explore WGEA’s archives of individual employers’ data. The WGEA Data Explorer has been updated and is now a one-stop shop for all public data collected by the Agency.

According to UK Government Equalities Office, men out-earn women on average in three out of four organisations required to report under new gender pay gap regulations.  

Attitudes about gender roles are evolving beyond the traditional ‘female homemaker’ and ‘male breadwinner’ model. However, in practice, there has been little change in Australian households.

We often hear about the gender pay gap. But is it really as simple as two people working side by side being paid differently?

Today, 1 June, is the Global Day of Parents, a day to recognise the pivotal role mothers and fathers play in our families, communities and workplaces. 

Each year we calculate the national gender pay gap using the latest Average Weekly Earnings trend series data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), marking the additional days from the end of the previous financial year that women must work, on average, to earn the same amount as men earned that year.

This post was written by WGEA Director Libby Lyons, discussing her recent travels and the state of workplace gender equality internationally. 

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has today announced the list of 2017-18 WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holders.