Examples Of Gender Equality In The Workplace

The examples of gender equality in the workplace that produce measurable change are structural. They alter how a decision is made rather than asking people to make the same decision more fairly.

• Published salary bands. Individual negotiation is one of the mechanisms that produces a gap, and bands remove most of it.
• Structured interviews. The same questions, in the same order, scored against criteria agreed beforehand.
• Promotion criteria written and published, so people can work toward something specific rather than guessing.
• Flexible senior roles. Not junior ones. Flexibility available only below a certain level is a ceiling with a friendly name.
• Rotating the unrewarded work. Minutes, organising, onboarding and committee seats, tracked and shared.

Awareness training supports these. On its own it changes attitudes and not outcomes.

The Australian Human Rights Commission covers discrimination obligations. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s EEO training course and diversity, equity and inclusion course.