BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights Series

Centre PersonnelRebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan
Research PartnersWorkplace Gender Equality Agency
Project StatusCurrent (June 2015 to July 2021)

Project Summary

The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre has partnered with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency in order to pursue a common goal of improving gender equality throughout Australia’s workplaces.

A core purpose of the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre is to shed new light on important economic and social issues facing Australia. The gender pay gap has long been one such issue, remaining a permanent feature of the Australian labour market.

Gender pay gaps not only challenge basic notions of fairness, they compromise the current and future economic security of women and represent a lost opportunity in human capital investment and potential.

The BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insight series will add to the evidence base around gender pay gaps and other gender equity indicators through expert analyses and research based on the new WGEA organisational reporting data.

Project Outputs

Gender Equity Insights 2019: Breaking through the Glass Ceiling Alan Duncan, Rebecca Cassells Glass ceilings have featured heavily in Australia’s workplaces for centuries but in recent years significant changes have been made. Women now make up almost 50% of Australia’s workforce and hold around 40% of all full-time jobs. Although women still remain under-represented... Read article Publication1 March 2019Gender Equity Insights Read More
Equal share of female managers on the horizon, but next century for CEOs — Women breaking through the glass ceiling earn $162k less than men — — Employer-paid parental leave a key driver in mothers returning to work — The highest paid men in Australia are being paid at least $162,000 more than... Read article Media1 March 2019Media Releases Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2019: Breaking through the Glass Ceiling The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) invites you to a lunch event to launch the fourth report in the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity series with special guest speaker, the Hon Julie Bishop MP. Gender Equity Insights 2019: Breaking through the... Read article Event1 March 2019 Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2018: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan This third report in the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights series extends and strengthens the evidence base around gender pay gaps and how these have changed over time across Australian workplaces. The report uses unique data reported to the WGEA, capturing 4... Read article Publication2 March 2018Gender Equity Insights Read More
Pay gaps close when leaders see the numbers More Australian employers taking action to close gender pay gaps Action three times more effective when data reported to executive or board  Australian employers that measure their gender pay gaps are making positive progress in closing gaps between women’s and... Read article Media2 March 2018Media Releases Read More
Auditing, matching pay and accountability will close the gender pay gap: study Taking action such as correcting like-for-like pay gaps, analysing performance pay and reporting the results to company boards are effective in closing the gender pay gap, new research shows. We found organisations that completed a pay gap analysis in the... Read article Media2 March 2018The Conversation Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2018: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre together with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency invites you to the launch of the third report in the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity series. Gender Equity Insights 2018: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap extends and strengthens the evidence... Read article Event2 March 2018 Read More
It’s too soon to celebrate a narrowing gender wage gap Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University The gender pay gap is trending downward. It has fallen from 24.7% to 22.4% in the past four years, in terms of total remuneration, according to the latest gender equality scorecard. But it’s not time to... Read article Media17 November 2017The Conversation Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2017: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Rachel Ong ViforJ The persistence of the gender pay gap in the Australian labour market is perplexing. The past decades have seen some major advances for women in the workforce and intentional policy initiatives that have targeted a reduction of the pay gap... Read article Publication2 March 2017Gender Equity Insights Read More
Gender balance in leadership drives reduced gender pay gaps Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), in collaboration with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) today released a report revealing top tier female managers in Australian organisations earn on average $93,000, or 26.5 per cent, less per year compared to their... Read article Media2 March 2017Media Releases Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2017: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre together with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency invites you to the launch of the second report in the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity series. The persistence of the gender pay gap in the Australian labour market is perplexing.... Read article Event2 March 2017 Read More
Will the real gender pay gap please stand up? Whenever the gender pay gap is mentioned there are always those who argue it doesn’t exist, either because of differences in the way men and women work, choices women make or legislation prohibiting it. Whatever the reason, this confused rhetoric... Read article Media8 September 2016The Conversation Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2016: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Rachel Ong ViforJ This first report in the BCEC|WGEA Gender Equity Insights series seeks to add to and strengthen the evidence base that exists around gender pay gaps throughout Australian workplaces. The report uses unique data reported to WGEA, capturing 4 million workers and more... Read article Publication3 March 2016BCEC Reports  |  Gender Equity Insights Read More
Female senior managers paid $100,000 less than their male counterparts: study Women are paid less on average than men at a senior management level and have less representation on boards, particularly among male-dominated industries, new research shows. Among top tier managers (those reporting directly to the CEO), female managers are paid... Read article Media3 March 2016The Conversation Read More
Gender Equity Insights 2016: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency invite you to the launch of the first report in the BCEC | WGEA Gender Equity series. Gender Equity Insights 2016: Inside Australia’s Gender Pay Gap extends and strengthens... Read article Event3 March 2016 Read More