About the Australian Gender Equality Council

Board & Management
Our Members
Our Supporters
Our Ambassadors
Our Manifesto

Responding to the unacceptably slow pace of change towards gender equality in Australia, leading front line organisations, representing women in all their diversity, have come together to form the Australian Gender Equality Council (AGEC), a national not-for-profit charitable organisation.

AGEC’s vision is simple: A Gender Equal Australia

Achieving this vision requires a fundamental shift in Australian society, ensuring all people have the same rights, opportunities, and outcomes across all sectors of the community, including economic participation and decision making.

AGEC believes a gender equal Australia will be achieved when the different behaviours, aspirations and needs of all genders are equally valued, respected and are manifest and clearly evident in Australian society.

AGEC’s founding members collectively represent a diverse and significant population of Australian women and girls.

AGEC in consultation with its membership aims to:

  1. ADVOCATE FOR A NATIONAL GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY
    • Advocate to Government and Industry, for a National Gender Equality Strategy, addressing all 12 elements of the AGEC Manifesto.
  2. BUILD STRONG MEMBER RELATIONSHIPS
    • Strengthen relationships within and between AGEC’s members, gather feedback and assess evolving priorities and concerns.
    • Grow AGEC’s membership to 150+ organisations across Australia.
  3. REALISE AGEC’S MANIFESTO
    • Identify opportunities where the voice of AGEC members could benefit from collective support in order to influence government, industry and key stakeholders.
  4. DRIVE RESEARCH, FUNDING AND INITIATIVES
    • Support AGEC members in developing research informed solutions, facilitating coalitions where beneficial
    • Facilitate and participate in partnerships to progress research and initiatives that will drive progress toward a gender equal Australia
  5. MONITOR AND EVALUATE PROGRESS
    • Monitor, consolidate, evaluate and report on progress towards a gender equal Australia.
    • Find opportunities to celebrate success

 

AGEC membership is open to any national member based not-for-profit organisation, which is:

  • Representative of women or girls which, in the opinion of the board, has demonstrated a commitment to gender equality in paid and unpaid work; or
  • In the opinion of the board, has demonstrated a commitment to gender equality in paid and unpaid work and is supportive of the objects of the company.

 

AGEC funding relies solely on its subscribers, donors and member organisations. AGEC is not government funded. AGEC is a charity regulated by the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission (ACNC) and is staffed entirely by volunteers.