Executive Summary
4 March 2025
The Closing gender pay gaps: Our actions and commitment 2025 report provides an executive-level summary of gender pay gap measures, the drivers of gender pay gaps and high impact actions that can be taken at organisation, sector and national level to close them.
This resource is designed to be shared with executive teams, Boards, our partners and suppliers to adopt or adapt as part of our collective efforts to close gender pay gaps.
Gender pay gaps are critical leadership measures that help to highlight the barriers to inclusive gender equality that are hard-wired into the Australian workforce—like unequal access to leadership roles, out-dated assumptions about suitable careers for women and men, pay differences across industries, and the impact of caregiving responsibilities on women’s careers, opportunities and pay.
Our experience tells us that organisations cannot close gender pay gaps by working alone and our positive progress highlights what’s possible when organisations work together, share lessons, and drive accountability for gender equality. This is a generational challenge that requires commitment from all sectors of society.
Supportive companion documents include:
- PDF GUIDE: Closing gender pay gaps: Guide for leadership, transparency and employer action
- PowerPoint GUIDE: Closing gender pay gaps: Guide for leadership, transparency and employer action
- RESOURCE: Achieving equal pay in like-for-like roles
“If we’re serious about tackling Australia’s innovation and productivity challenges, we need women fully engaged in, equally contributing to and benefiting from our economy. Closing gender pay gaps will ensure fairness, build economic strength and help future-proof Australia’s workforce.” James Fazzino, Convenor, Champions of Change Coalition
“We want to ensure everyone has a fair shot at achieving their best financial position in retirement. When women earn less over their careers, they have fewer savings for retirement. By tackling the dynamics that underpin gender pay gaps, we can help more women build a secure financial future.” Paul Schroder, Chief Executive, AustralianSuper
More information, including case studies/examples of Member action to close gender pay gaps, can be found in the Champions of Change Coalition report Closing gender pay gaps: Our actions and commitment 2024 which was developed to support the first public release of private sector employer gender pay gap data by WGEA in 2024.
