Premium Insights and analysis Workplace gender equality about more than the pay gap, says Wooldridge Editors' Picks WGEA’s Mary Wooldridge said the publication of gender pay gap data was an important step, but people’s jobs were ‘more than a pay slip’.
Premium Interviews Why are Australia’s part-time bosses mostly men? November 23, 2023 By Melissa Coade Editors' Picks The fortunate few who make it to the highest levels of seniority and negotiate flexible work at the executive level belong to a boys’ club.
Equal women’s participation in economy requires complete transformation September 10, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce chair Sam Mostyn says her report recommends wide-ranging structural reforms to government.
Pretending workplace barriers for women do not exist will not magic pay gap away August 25, 2023 By Melissa Coade Culture WGEA has marked Equal Pay Day by calling for employers to deal with issues of bias, discrimination and entrenched gender stereotypes.
Slow progress on gender pay gap but APS figures better than national results August 21, 2023 By Melissa Coade Federal The gender pay gap in the Australian Public Service has narrowed over the past 12 months to 5.2%, according to remuneration data.
Non-APS public sector employers widen gender pay gap in WGEA snapshot July 3, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Economy & Industry The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released a snapshot of gender equality data for 52 commonwealth public sector employers.
WGEA public sector pilot data to be published later this year March 20, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social WGEA said 52 federal public sector organisations with over 100 employees agreed to participate in a voluntary reporting pilot in 2022.
Australia’s delegation for UN Commission on the Status of Women visits New York March 7, 2023 By Melissa Coade Federal Senator Malarndirri McCarthy is leading Australia’s delegation to the UN this week to advance the position of women.
WGEA says organisations are ‘seeing results’ in gender equality March 1, 2023 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social Organisations that have the WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation are more likely to have a smaller gender pay gap.
WGEA director says we should double down on gender equality, not move on November 16, 2022 By Anna Macdonald Community & Social The Diversity Council Australia’s 10th annual debate saw panellists argue the question: Is it time to move on from gender equality?
National gender pay gap widens to 14.1% August 30, 2022 By Dan Holmes Community & Social On average, women working full-time earn $1,609 per week while men working full-time earn $1,872.90.
Data and gender equality indicators key to changing workplace culture, review finds March 6, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social The government has published a review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, which tackles workplace inequality.
Australian women still scraping by for equal pay February 14, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Slight improvement in the latest gender pay gap data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency has ‘barely’ made inroads.