Australia’s 106 best employers for women named by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released its annual list of Employers of Choice for Gender Equality.
This year the list features 106 companies, up from 90 last year and 76 in 2014, despite more rigorous criteria.
WGEA Director Libby Lyons said the growing list indicated that the business benefits and competitive advantage gained by addressing gender equality in the workplace were becoming more widely recognised.
“Employers increasingly recognise that equal participation by women and men at all levels of an organisation is good for workplace culture and performance,” Lyons said.
“WGEA data shows there is progress towards gender equality in Australian workplaces, but it is too slow.
The organisations that made the cut range from small professional services firms to very large organisations including universities and banks, with male-dominated, female-dominated and mixed industries represented.
“It is only through more employers taking the initiative to promote gender equality in the workplace that we will see the pace of change pick up.”
Teachers Health Fund named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in 2016 Teachers Health Fund’s commitment to gender equality has been acknowledged for a sixth consecutive year after being named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) in 2016. Teachers Health Fund previously received the EOCGE citation in 2014 and 2015 and was also recognised in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as an Employer of Choice for Women, when the Agency was known as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) released their list of 2016 citation holders last week, with Teachers Health Fund one of only 106 organisations nationwide to receive recognition. The WGEA EOCGE citation is strategically aligned with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 and recognises that gender equality is increasingly critical to an organisation’s success and is viewed as a baseline feature of well-managed and leading organisations. According to Brad Joyce, Chief Execu...

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