Gender workplace statistics at a glance

Women’s workforce participation
• Women make up 45.6% of the total labour force.1

•Women constitute 70.2% of all part-time employees and 35.3% of all full-time employees.2

The gender pay gap
• On average, women working full-time earn 17.8% less than men working full-time.3

• Female graduates earn $2,000 per annum less than male graduates on entering the workforce.4

• 36.6% of EOWA reporting organisations said they conducted an annual gender pay equity analysis in 2011.5

Paid parental leave
• 53.9% of organisations reporting to EOWA provide paid maternity leave with an average duration of 9.5 weeks.6

• 36.9% now provide paid paternity leave.7

Women in leadership

Real-time data8

• 13.5% of directors in the ASX 200 are women.

• 61 women have been appointed to ASX 200 boards in 2011 (compared with 59 in total in 2010).

• Women represent 29% of all new appointments to ASX 200 boards in 2011, compared with 25% in 2010.

• 65 ASX 200 companies do not have a woman on their board.

Point in time data9 
The 2010 EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership (Census) revealed that there had been little overall change to the number of female board directors and senior managers in the ASX 200 since 2008. It established that, as at 30 April 2010, women in the ASX 200 made up:

• 2.5% of chairs;

• 3.0% of CEOs;

• 8.4% of board directors; and •8.0% of executive managers.

　

NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT IS UPDATED QUARTERLY.

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1 ABS, Cat. 6202.0, Labour Force, Australia, Status by Sex – Trend, Table 1, (Released 17.11.11) 2 Ibid. 3 ABS, Cat. 6302.0, Average Weekly Earnings – Trend, February 2011 (Released 17.11.11) 4 Graduate Careers Australia, Gradstats 2011 (Dec 2011) 5 EOWA, (2011), Annual Report 2010-11 6 EOWA, (2011), EOWA Annual Survey Results, Paid Maternity Leave 7 Ibid. 8 AICD Statistics, as at 4th January 2012 on http://www.companydirectors.com.au/Director-Resource-Centre/Governance-and-Director-Issues/Board-Diversity/Statistics. Last updated 7 December 2011 9 EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership (2010), available at http://www.eowa.gov.au/Information_Centres/Resource_Centre/EOWA_Publications/EOWA_Census/2010_Census/2010_Census_Report.asp The Census is conducted every two years.