WGEA

“My question is this: when are we going to name the elephant in the room? This annual “best practice” bonanza is emblematic of the Morrison government’s softly, softly — and ultimately ineffective – approach to closing the gender pay gap.”

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has announced its list of employers of choice for gender equality for 2022, naming 120 organisations.

But women choose to work in lower paid sectors like health, education and childcare! They say, as if that makes a pay gap OK.

New data showing three in five employers now offer paid parental leave, marks a significant milestone in supporting new parents at work.

Without demonstrable leadership in the form of action and legislative reform the cycle of workplace inequality will continue.

So will companies be listening? As the world adjusts to a COVID-19 economy? We only hope so. Diversity in decision making matters.

The latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency scorecard paints a bleak assessment, Valeria Ignatieva from WORK180, says there’s a slightly different picture.

‘Disappointing’ is the way the WGEA director Libby Lyons describes the results from Australia’s latest gender equality scorecard.

Targets for flexible work as well as other opportunities to help dads balance caring responsibilities with work could be a game changer

Many in gender equality circles are fond of the maxim that “what gets measured gets managed” but Kristine Ziwica is she’s having a crisis of faith.

The highest paid men in Australia earn at least $162,000 more than the highest paid women: a new report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre & WGEA

WGEA has today announced 141 organisations on its 2018/19 Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, recognised for their commitment to promote equality.