- Report year:2024
- Organisation: Champions of Change Coalition
Closing national gender pay gaps is a generational challenge requiring commitment and co-ordinated action at organisation, sector and national levels.
The Champions of Change report, Closing gender pay gaps: our action and commitment, released to coincide with Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s inaugural publication of gender pay gap data for Australian private sector organisations with more than 100 employees, provides the median gender pay gap data for Champions of Change Coalition Members, together with a framework for understanding and responding to gender pay gaps and priority actions the Coalition is taking to close them.
We aim to achieve inclusive gender equality by; advancing more and diverse women into leadership; creating safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces and embedding equality and inclusion in what we deliver, creating an innovation advantage and positive social impact. Gender pay gaps are powerful aggregate measures of progress. While many of our Members now have gender balance across their organisations, our gender pay gap data points to more systemic and structural issues that need to be addressed. This is why we exist and why our Members invest in the work we do together.
In Australia, pay equality – when women and men are paid the same for performing the same role or different work of equal or comparable value – has been a legal requirement since 1969. When women and men are not paid the same for performing the same or a similar role, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘like-for-like pay gap’. Champions of Change Members have closely monitored, taken action on and reported on pay equality for many years.
The Champions of Change report, Closing gender pay gaps: our action and commitment, released to coincide with Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s inaugural publication of gender pay gap data for Australian private sector organisations with more than 100 employees, provides the median gender pay gap data for Champions of Change Coalition Members, together with a framework for understanding and responding to gender pay gaps and priority actions the Coalition is taking to close them.
We aim to achieve inclusive gender equality by; advancing more and diverse women into leadership; creating safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces and embedding equality and inclusion in what we deliver, creating an innovation advantage and positive social impact. Gender pay gaps are powerful aggregate measures of progress. While many of our Members now have gender balance across their organisations, our gender pay gap data points to more systemic and structural issues that need to be addressed. This is why we exist and why our Members invest in the work we do together.
In Australia, pay equality – when women and men are paid the same for performing the same role or different work of equal or comparable value – has been a legal requirement since 1969. When women and men are not paid the same for performing the same or a similar role, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘like-for-like pay gap’. Champions of Change Members have closely monitored, taken action on and reported on pay equality for many years.