Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workforce improves staff engagement, enhances decision-making and can improve business outcomes and profitability.
At Engineers Australia we champion an engineering profession that’s as diverse as the community it serves. As the peak body for Australian engineers, we’re committed to leading the way on diversity and inclusion across the profession.
As an employer, our people are at the heart of what we do and how we do it and we’re continuing to build a culture that we can all be proud of.
We invest in diversity, inclusion and belonging and invite our people to bring their whole selves to work.
Our positioning statement
Engineers Australia’s Diversity and Inclusion Positioning Statement defines and sets out what these terms mean in a modern workforce.
Our positioning statement is guided by the organisation’s strategic goals to be the trusted voice of the profession, create tomorrow’s engineers and provide them with a professional home for life.
Engineers Australia is dedicated to advancing society through great engineering. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as the oldest continuous cultures on earth, and as our first engineers.
Our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) seeks to honour their legacy by strengthening relationships and sharing First Nations engineering knowledge and achievements with our employees, members, the profession and the wider community.
How we meet our commitments
Our positioning statement also outlines how we will meet our diversity and inclusion commitments, including:
- Promoting gender diversity through participation in the Champions of Change Coalition (formerly Male Champions of Change) STEM Group and diverse representation on industry speaking panels.
- An ongoing focus on gender balance and female membership through the National Committee for Women in Engineering.
- Promoting diversity and inclusion best practice as an active member of the Diversity Council.
- Providing guidance to our members on how to give a respectful Acknowledgement of Country.
- Promoting our LGBTQI+ activities as an active member of Pride in Diversity.
- Creating an InterEngineer community to support our LGBTQI+ engineers.
- Working in partnership with allied bodies to assist our members and the engineering community to achieve their diversity goals.
2024-2025 gender pay gap
As the national body for engineering, Engineers Australia is committed to leading by example on gender equity. Our 2024-25 gender pay gap results reflect both the progress we are making and the work still ahead. With women now representing more than half our leaders, and sustained actions underway to improve inclusion and pay equity, we remain focused on building a profession where everyone can thrive.
View our 2024-2025 gender pay gap report.
