Australia has improved its global ranking for gender equality and is now sitting at 24, according to the latest Status of Women Report Card.
The report details Australia improved from 26th last year, after a significant improvement from 43rd in 2023.
Federal Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said the 2025 analysis showed Australia was making strides to achieve gender equality, including economic equality for women and girls.
Senator Gallagher said the report revealed the national gender pay gap was 11.9 per cent, down from a record-high of 18.6 per cent 10 years ago and women’s workforce participation had reached a record high of 63.5 percent.
She said more than half of Australian couples use paid childcare, an increase of 13.2 percentage points over the last 10 years.
“The data shows that we can’t just focus in one area and expect everything will be okay – we need to focus on jobs and pay, paid and unpaid care, safety and health, representation and education.”
Minister Gallagher said women had 21.3 percent less superannuation than men, did nine more hours of unpaid work and care every week than men and in the most senior levels of leadership were still paid substantially less than their male peers.
