Project commenced March 2025
| Organisation | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount (GST exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Sydney | Research Partnership | The University of Sydney will lead a group of partners to build the evidence base on what works to achieve gender equality, especially in relation to driving economic equality. The University’s Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion @ Work will partner with Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research (at University of Technology Sydney) and University of Melbourne. The Research Partnership activities aim to strengthen the evidence base where gaps remain, and translate evidence into action for Government, industry and the community more broadly. | $5,000,000 |
Project commenced June 2023
| Organisation | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount (GST exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women for Election Australia Ltd | Enhancing Diverse Women’s Pathways into Leadership Roles | The Women for Election Australia project aims to build and support a pipeline of diverse women to prepare for, and enter, public office at all levels of government. Activities under the program include place-based training events, online training forums, and a tech-based training platform containing candidate resources and support forums. The project will increase the number and diversity of women running for public office and getting elected, and encourages the participation of women from politically under-represented communities. Delivery partners for this national non-partisan project include Turnstone Collective, Australian Local Government Women's Association, Global Institute of Women's Leadership, Ruth McGowan Pty Ltd, and Quantum Impact Group Pty Ltd | $5,000,000 |
Project commenced February 2023
| Organisation | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount (GST exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited | Family Friendly Workplace Initiative | The Family Friendly Workplace (FFW) initiative was established by UNICEF Australia and Parents at Work together with a group of leading Australian employers in 2021. Its purpose is to further advance the goal of building a family-friendly Australia by enabling more employers to adopt people policies and practices that foster workplace cultures that are safe, inclusive, and family-friendly. FFW directly addresses the challenges working families, and in particular women, face when combining their work and caring responsibilities, and thus improves women workforce participation and gender equality. | $1,400,000 |
Projects commenced December 2022
| Organisation | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount (GST exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diversity Council Australia Limited | Realise. Inspire. Support. Energise. (RISE) | This project addresses the systemic barriers that restrict culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women’s upward mobility into leadership roles in Australian organisations. Innovatively working at the individual and systemic level concurrently, the project will partner with organisations to identify, design, deliver and evaluate effective change interventions that remove systemic barriers for CALD women in middle management. The project will focus on building CALD women’s leadership skills and provide training programs, which are designed to create a critical, nuanced and reflective understanding of these structural barriers. | $3,279,542 |
| Global Sisters Limited | Back Her Brilliance | This project will focus on women who experience intersectional barriers to economic participation and support them on a pathway to self-employment. The project will support women to become business leaders and employers of the future. Key activities include the roadmap of business development support: business ideation, business education, coaching support and connections with leading Australian companies, microfinance and direct market access. | $3,000,000 |
| People with Disability Australia Ltd | Advancing Women with Disability in the Workforce | This project will improve how women with disability participate in Australia’s workforce and their leadership representation. The project will focus on developing leadership skills and will deliver a series of training, webinar and e-learning modules to employers, staff, disabled women and disability sector workers. These modules will unpack employment in relation to Australia’s key disability and disability employment strategies, diversity and inclusion from a disability rights perspective, through the lens of women with disability. Networks will be developed through a mentorship program, supported by key employer, employee and recruitment organisations. | $1,115,000 |
| Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative Limited | Yanalangami Strong Women, Strong Communities Program | Yanalangami is a national self-governed grassroots leadership program that connects and further empowers Indigenous women by strengthening their networks and leadership capacity. This program expands on the success of Tranby's existing Yanalangami program, which is recognised as a powerful, innovative and best-practice example of cultural governance and place-based leadership. It is unique, culturally-safe and addresses the systemic barriers faced by Indigenous women through strengths-based models, supporting women's inherent cultural leadership and healing. | $2,772,268 |
| University of New South Wales | Attracting, Retaining and Empowering Women in Construction | This project engages female high-school students, women studying construction in universities, and women working in the construction industry to promote the industry’s diverse job opportunities for women and support them to successfully progress their career and obtain leadership positions. The project aims to make fundamental changes in Australian society and the construction industry, to enable a sustainable increase of women’s workforce participation and leadership positions in construction. | $2,311,000 |
| Women in Seafood Australasia | Turn the Tide | Turn the Tide is an innovative national project to support women and influence men and decision-makers within the Australian seafood industry. The project will focus on increasing women’s representation in leadership through leadership and entrepreneurship training, building strong networks and improving access to champions, mentors and decision makers. The project will address systematic and cultural barriers women face within the industry to make workplaces more attractive for women to thrive in, free of bias and safe from sexual harassment. | $3,362,000 |
Projects commenced June 2021
| Applicant | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount (GST exclusive) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Women Pty Ltd | Jobs Academy | The expansion of the Jobs Academy aims to improve job readiness, workforce participation and economic security of marginalised women aged 40+. Participants are provided with access to skills and confidence building workshops, digital mentoring, financial literacy training, networking opportunities, small business start-up support, and connections with real job vacancies, including in male-dominated industries. | $9,469,000 |
Project commenced between 2019 and 2021
| Applicant | Project title | Description of project | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia Limited (COSBOA) | Future Female Entrepreneurs Program | This project delivers the Academy for Enterprising Girls program which supports young girls aged 10-18, to develop their skills in STEM, entrepreneurship and design thinking. The Accelerator for Enterprising Women program supports young women aged 18-24, providing the skills required to run their own business and includes a one-stop-shop of information, resources and business funding opportunities. The Enterprising ME Women program supports women 18+ with financial literacy, mentorship programs and business/entrepreneurship skills. | $13,700,000 |
Completed projects funded under the Working for Women Program.
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