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Baseline report

Data as at March 2024

This report provides sources and reference points for each indicator and measure listed in the reporting framework of Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality. As a baseline, this is a point-in-time data and reference set on the status of gender equality in Australia at the time of the Strategy's release on 7 March 2024.

This report lists the data the Government will monitor to assess the impact of Working for Women and progress towards gender equality over the next 10 years. These data points have been selected in order to track progress against the ambitions of Working for Women and provide insight into the experiences of women and men in Australia. This baseline report will inform the mid-point review of Working for Women to be conducted in 2029.

Data sources used in this report are reported on different cycles from monthly through to every five years. Some data sources are updated on an ad hoc basis. The mid-point review will include the release of a mid-point update to the baseline to track change towards gender equality. Data measures and sources may also be added over time where more appropriate data sets emerge.

Where available, the data includes disaggregated data for First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disability, people of different ages, and LGBTIQA+ people. There are limitations to this data in some cases, particularly where there are small population or sample sizes. The Government will work to improve data to help inform better outcomes for all Australians.

In addition to this report and the mid-point review, the Government will continue to release Status of Women Report Cards annually, highlighting key statistics across the priority areas of Working for Women.

Where indicators are informed by targets from existing strategies, time frames and target levels have been included in this report. The remaining indicators outline directional goals, but are not targets with specific time frames.

Foundation: Gender attitudes and stereotypes

Outcome: Community attitudes and beliefs in Australia reject gender inequality

Indicator Measure Baseline (2024)
Increased community attitudes that reject gender inequality

Aligns with targets under the Outcomes Framework of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022โ€“2032

Mean score on the Australian Gender Inequality Scale for attitudes that reject gender inequality National Plan target: two point increase every four years

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Priority area 1. Gender-based violence: End violence against women

Outcome 1.1: All people live free from violence and are safe at home, at work, at school, in the community and online

Ref. Indicator Measure Baseline (2024)
1.1.1 A reduction in female victims of intimate partner homicide

Aligns with targets under the Outcomes Framework of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022โ€“2032

Female victims of intimate partners homicide

National Plan target: 25% reduction per year

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1.1.2 An increase in community attitudes that reject violence against women

Aligns with targets under the Outcomes Framework of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022โ€“2032

Mean score of attitudes that condemn violence against women on the Attitudes towards Violence against Women Scale (AVAWS)

National Plan target: 2 point increase in mean score every four years

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