A new report has found that while workplace gender equality is improving in Australia, more action is needed to ensure progress continues. The biennial progress report released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency revealed that progress on equality had stalled over the past two years, with no reduction in the gender pay gap, which remained at 22.8%. The report also revealed that in the construction and real estate industries, the gender pay gap had widened since 2013/14. The agency director, Mary Wooldridge, stated that while laws allowed for the development of Australia’s innovative gender equality dataset, a new approach was needed to accelerate the rate of improvement. Recent law changes will allow the gender equality agency to publish employer gender pay gaps and collect more detailed information relating to sexual harassment and discrimination. The report found that nearly four in five employers have a strategy in place to support gender equality, up 11.5 percentage points from 2013/14.
Gender equality at a turning point in Australian workplaces, report says.
