The NSW Government is the largest employer in the southern hemisphere and the largest employer of women in the country. New South Wales is also Australia’s largest state economy and a key driver of national productivity and growth.

This means the NSW Government can play a critical role in shaping equitable working lives for women in New South Wales. As an employer, a provider and funder of services, a regulator and legislator, and a procurer of goods and services, the NSW Government has multiple levers that can be used to drive workplace gender equality.

This report identifies seven dimensions of gender inequality at work, and five areas for government action.