The report card is an important mechanism for taking stock of where Australia is making progress towards gender equality, and where challenges still remain. It presents both updated and new data points for the following areas: attitudes and norms; gender-based violence; unpaid and paid care; economic equality and security; health; and leadership, representation and decision...

This 5th edition analyses the contributing drivers of the gender pay gap in Australia to explain why the gender pay gap exists and where it needs to be addressed the most. It identifies key drivers as unequal distribution of hours spent on care, family and workforce participation, as well as the types of jobs engaged...

A report from an annual survey investigating working time, including overwork and unpaid overtime in Australia. Two of the key findings are widespread dissatisfaction with paid work hours, and employees working excessive unpaid overtime. On average, employees work unpaid overtime of 3.6 hours a week, equivalent to over 4.5 weeks a year.

This policy brief summarises key findings on gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, from the OECD report Gender equality in a changing world, identifying relevant social, economic and institutional factors preventing gender equality. It closes with relevant policy options to reduce gender gaps in paid and unpaid work.

In an effort to build understanding of educators’ experiences of work in early childhood education and care (ECEC), this study gathered basic foundational data on Australian educators’ workload focusing on educators' work hours and workload demands. The study establishes workload as a significant demand for ECEC educators, confirming that there may be a relationship between...