Before you submit your progress report, make sure it is compliant with the Gender Equality Act.
This checklist provides detail on the required and recommended information for defined entities to include in thier progress reports. Click on the button links to navigate to the corresponding section in the guidance document.
You can also find some helpful resources below the checklist.
1. Gender Impact Assessments
Required
- Identify each policy, program or service that was the subject of a GIA during the relevant period.
- Report the actions approved/taken to develop or vary the policy, program, or service as a result of the GIA.
- Exclude any material from the progress report that would disclose confidential information.
Recommended
- Explain how an intersectional lens was applied while completing the assessment.
GIA progress reporting guidance
Find more information about GIAs.
2. Gender Equality Action Plan strategies and measures
Required
- List each of the strategies and measures set out in your GEAP.
- Indicate the status of your progress as at the end of the relevant period.
- Provide a description of the status you have selected against each strategy or measure.
Recommended
- Evaluate the success that each strategy or measure has achieved during the relevant period.
- Provide a timeline against each strategy.
- Indicate who within your defined entity is responsible for implementing each strategy or measure.
- Select the relevant workplace gender equality indicators in the Act that the strategy or measure was designed to address.
- Outline the resourcing allocated to implement the strategies and measures in your GEAP.
Strategies and measures progress reporting guidance
Find more information about GEAPs.
3. Workplace gender equality indicators
Required
- Complete your progress audit and analyse the data.
- Demonstrate your progress against each indicator.
Recommended
- Refer to and draw on the Commissioner’s recommendations to guide the analysis of your progress audit data.
- Identify and discuss any of the factors that have affected your organisation's progress in relation to the workplace gender equality indicators.
Indicators progress reporting guidance
Find more information about the workplace gender equality indicators.
4. Submission and Publication
Required
- Use the templates provided by the Commissioner to complete and submit your progress report.
- Submit your progress report to the Commissioner by the reporting deadline.
- Remove any personal or potentially identifying information prior to publishing your progress report.
- Publish your progress report on your website.
Recommended
- Submit a supporting document providing reflections and key learnings during this relevant period.
Submission and publication guidance
Helpful Resources
- Learn more about maintaining your employees privacy.
- Access answers to a list of frequently asked questions about progress reporting and the Act.
- Access leading practice resources including, research, tools and guidelines across a range of areas.
Reviewed 29 August 2023