Auditing the Auditors: Interrogating the potential for gender-responsive law-making in Australia and globally

Start year: 2025

Summary: This Project will discover if and how legislative scrutiny advances gender equality. By investigating parliamentary gender audit committees in Tasmania, the ACT, Canada and Spain, we will generate new comparative knowledge on the influence, relevance and contribution of gender audit committees to law-making, breaking ground in exploring the capacity of auditing to enhance legislation for a diversity of women. The project will create a qualitative and quantitative dataset on gender audits based on the team’s expertise in parliamentary scrutiny, gendered citizenship and gender equality. Its timely comparative findings will enable the Australian government to learn from state and global experiences to achieve its gender equality ambitions.