Analysing your audit results

Introduction

Under the Gender Equality Act 2020(opens in a new window) (the Act) and the Gender Equality Regulations 2020, duty holders must undertake a workplace gender audit:

• before developing a gender equality action plan(opens in a new window) (GEAP)
• to inform a progress report(opens in a new window)

This guidance aims to support you to prepare for and undertake analysis against the 7 workplace gender equality indicators. It also provides advice on how these indicators are linked. Understanding these links can help you better understand gender inequality in your organisation.

Analysing your audit data will also help you:

• present your findings for consultation as part of developing your GEAP
• choose appropriate strategies to include in your GEAP
• understand how to report on your progress on the indicators in your progress report.

How to use this guidance

This guidance helps you understand the performance measures based on your gender audit data.

After you collect and upload your audit data, you can view the performance measures in the performance report on the reporting platform(opens in a new window).

Use this guidance alongside:

• the gender audit guidance and template(opens in a new window) – to ensure your audit data has been collected, uploaded and checked for quality before viewing the performance measures; and
• the guidance for preparing your gender equality action plan(opens in a new window) and progress report(opens in a new window).

Reviewing your performance measures on the reporting platform

To review your performance measures using the Commission's reporting platform, follow the detailed instructions under 'Performance report' in the Gender Equality Act reporting platform user guide(opens in a new window).