Diversity Council Australia's key take-outs from our Gender Pay Gap Reporting in Australia: Time for an upgrade

It’s hard to believe that, after more than four decades of advocacy, exposure and both government and business policy, Australia’s full-time gender pay-gap has not closed. Instead, it increased to 14.2% during the COVID-19 pandemic. We trail other WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic) nations on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index, ranking in the 70th spot.  

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard – the only woman to have served as our Prime Minster – has thrown her weight behind new strategies and a renewed focus in the ongoing fight for women’s long overdue equal pay. In her role as chair of The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London, Julia and her team have put forward a series of critical recommendations. And central to these is a call to improve how organisation report their efforts to establish gender equality and equal pay.  

Gender Pay Gap Reporting in Australia: Time for an upgrade, which is an Australian-centric companion report to Bridging the gap? An analysis of gender pay gap reporting in six countries provides a detailed examination of Australia’s current gender pay gap reporting arrangements and how they can, and should, be improved upon.  

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