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Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) 

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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), opens in a new window is an Australian Government statutory agency created by the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012.

The Agency is charged with promoting and improving gender equality in Australian workplaces.

UNSW records gender pay gap below 5 per cent

"Gender pay equity is critical to a healthy society and an inclusive culture. We’ve worked hard to put in place strategies to close the gender pay gap and to keep it closed. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s publication of this data is a very useful tool, providing transparency for all. However, while I’m proud of where we stand based on this data, we cannot be complacent. We need to continue to progress, to drive forward and take meaningful action to ensure pay and opportunities are equitable at UNSW."

UNSW Vice-Chancellor and President Attila Brungs

UNSW records a median total remuneration gender pay gap of under 5%, as the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s publish gender pay gap results for organisations across Australia.

UNSW welcomed WGEA’s decision to publish gender pay gap data as this ensures transparency and holds organisations to account in openly acknowledging disparities and taking responsibility for addressing them.

Core to UNSW’s commitment to inclusion and equity is commitment to fairness and progress knowing gender pay equity is critical to a healthy society and an inclusive culture.

This result is underpinned by a number of key drivers and initiatives working under the UN's Gender Equality Sustainable Development Goal including the eight points opposite. 

It is further supported by the launch of UNSW’s first Gender Equity Strategy which aligns efforts across Human Resources, EDI, and the Faculties and Divisions so staff of all genders, ethnicities, faiths, heritages, abilities, sexual orientation, age, religious and cultural backgrounds can be represented and recognised, with access to the tools and support to succeed at all levels of employment.
  1. Gender equal recruitment policies and process.
  2. The Enterprise Agreement for Academic, opens in a new window and Professional, opens in a new window staff including equal pay and flexible working arrangements and parental and carers leave.
  3. Sage Athena Swan, an institutional award received in 2018 for work and ongoing commitment to advancing gender equity and diversity in higher education and research.
  4. The Gendered Violence Research Network, opens in a new window, one of Australia’s leading research hubs for investigating, exploring and finding solutions to prevent gendered violence.
  5. Pathway to Politics for Women, opens in a new window, a non-partisan initiative that aims to address the underrepresentation of women in Australian politics.
  6. Transforming Women’s Leadership Pathways, an international initiative of the PLuS Alliance (Arizona State University, King’s College London and UNSW Sydney) to dramatically shift the dial on women’s equity, and to broaden pathways to leadership for women by 2030.
  7. The Women in Research Network, a leading forum for research-active women to progress gender equity across the University  through the trifecta of support, information and advocacy.
  8. The Women’s Wellbeing Academy, established to positively impact women’s wellbeing, nationally and globally, through multidisciplinary collaborative research, practice, teaching and programs that advance gender equity and equality.