The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women is expected to announce a new Workplace Gender Equality Strategy today.

Senator Michaelia Cash will address the National Press Club this afternoon, where insiders say she will announce the move to improve gender equality in the workplace.

The announcement would follow damning figures that show the pay gap between Australian men and women is expanding. 

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency says 45 per cent of employers have policies for flexible work, family and caring responsibility, but only 13 per cent have an actual strategy for implementing them.

Just 7 per cent of local organisations have an effective gender equality strategy.

The Federal Government has asked the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Workplace Leadership to develop the new strategy that organisations could have up and running by June.

It is expected that the announcement today will detail this request and what may result from it.

Meanwhile, data shows the gender pay gap for full-time remuneration across all Australian industries is about 24.7 per cent.

In terms of average weekly earnings, there is an 18.8 per cent (or $298.10) pay gap between men and women.

An estimated 49 per cent of mothers and 27 per cent of fathers and partners have reported experiencing discrimination at work during pregnancy, parental leave or upon returning to work.