Wgea MCP README
The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Wgea MCP listing page.
wgea-mcp
mcp-name: io.ausdata/wgea-mcp
MCP server for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) public data file. Plain-English access to per-employer workforce composition, gender-equality policy answers, parental leave, flexible work, and harm-prevention data — every WGEA-reporting employer in Australia (~9,600 employers), every year, from a single uvx command.
Hosted access? For cross-source queries, webhooks, an always-on REST API, and a uniform response envelope across all 9 sources, see ausdata.io — free tier available (500 calls/mo, no card).
Sister to abs-mcp, rba-mcp, ato-mcp, apra-mcp, aihw-mcp, asic-mcp, and au-weather-mcp.
Install
Claude Desktop
Claude Code
What it exposes
Six tools, all plain-English in, structured out:
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
search_datasets | Fuzzy-search the curated catalog by keyword |
describe_dataset | List a dataset's filterable dimensions and returnable measures |
get_data | Query with filters, period range, output format |
latest | Restrict to the latest reporting year. Row cap parameter is limit (portfolio-standard); max_rows retained as legacy alias. |
top_n | Rank rows by a numeric measure (e.g. n_employees) and return the top (or bottom) N for one reporting year. |
list_curated | Enumerate the curated dataset IDs |
Every response is the same shape — dataset_id, dataset_name, query, reporting_year, unit, row_count, records, source_url, download_url, did_you_mean, attribution, stale flag, server_version.
Curated datasets (8)
| ID | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|
HEADLINE_GAP | Industry gender pay gap mid-points by ANZSIC division + national rollup | EGPG xlsx on wgea.gov.au (aggregated server-side) |
WORKFORCE_COMPOSITION | Per-employer headcount by occupation × manager category × gender | wgea_workforce_composition_<year>.csv |
WORKFORCE_MANAGEMENT | Manager movements (promotions, hires, resignations) by gender | wgea_workforce_management_statistics_<year>.csv |
GENDER_EQUALITY_ACTIONS | Pay-gap analyses, gender targets, governance — Q&A responses | wgea_questionnaire_action_on_gender_equality_<year>.csv |
PARENTAL_LEAVE_FLEX | Parental leave + flexible-work policy responses | wgea_questionnaire_flexible_work_<year>.csv |
HARM_PREVENTION | Sexual harassment + domestic-violence policy responses | wgea_questionnaire_harm_prevention_<year>.csv |
EMPLOYEE_SUPPORT | Carer leave, EAP, mental-health programs | wgea_questionnaire_employee_support_<year>.csv |
WORKPLACE_OVERVIEW | Board composition, governing-body diversity, CEO + KMP demographics | wgea_questionnaire_workplace_overview_<year>.csv |
The headline gender pay-gap %.
HEADLINE_GAP(added in 0.6.0) carries the industry mid-points WGEA publishes annually in its Employer Gender Pay Gaps Report — e.g. Mining 18.9%, Financial and Insurance Services 21.4%, "All employers" national mid-point 11.2% (2024-25 reporting year). Numbers match WGEA's published Figure 4 to within rounding. For the workforce-weighted national aggregate (~21.1% private sector) WGEA states in its public materials, see the WGEA Data Explorer — that figure requires payroll data WGEA holds before public release and is not derivable from the published employer-level xlsx.
Reliability — 2-tier URL resolution
WGEA publishes the public data file annually under a single CKAN package on data.gov.au. Each annual release gets a fresh resource UUID:
- Live CKAN —
package_show?id=wgea-datasetreturns every resource; the newest "WGEA Data — Public Data File" wins. Cached 6h. - Bundled seed manifest — when CKAN is unreachable, fall back to
data/seed_urls.jsonshipped in the wheel. The response is flaggedstale: truewith an honest reason.
Net effect: a fresh uvx wgea-mcp always gets the current reporting year; a 12-month-old install still works because the seed manifest is refreshed and --upgrade pulls a new wheel.
Fuzzy employer-name search
Pass any abbreviation, alias, or substring and rapidfuzz resolves it:
| You type | Resolved to |
|---|---|
"CBA" | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
"Commonwealth Bank" | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
"NAB" | National Australia Bank Limited |
"Westpac" | Westpac Banking Corporation |
"Woolies" / "woolworths" | Woolworths Group Limited |
"Atlassian" | Atlassian Pty Ltd |
"qantas" | Qantas Airways Limited |
When nothing exact matches, did_you_mean carries the top-5 closest legal names so the agent can ask the user to pick.
Attribution
Data sourced from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU). wgea-mcp is MIT-licensed; WGEA's data carries the upstream CC-BY 3.0 AU licence, echoed in every response's attribution field.
Per-employer reporting is a deliberate disclosure under the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 — redistribution is explicitly intended.
Sister MCPs (Australian Public Data portfolio)
Want all 9 sources behind one REST API? The hosted gateway at ausdata.io adds cross-source joins, full history, webhooks, and HMAC-signed responses on top of these MCPs — free tier (500 calls/mo, no card).
- abs-mcp — Australian Bureau of Statistics (CPI, unemployment, ERP, building approvals)
- rba-mcp — Reserve Bank of Australia (cash rate, lending stats, exchange rates)
- ato-mcp — Australian Taxation Office (tax stats, ACNC charities)
- apra-mcp — Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (banking, insurance, super)
- aihw-mcp — Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- asic-mcp — Australian Securities and Investments Commission (company registers)
- aemo-mcp — Australian Energy Market Operator (NEM dispatch, spot prices, generation)
- au-weather-mcp — Open-Meteo (Bureau of Meteorology aggregator)
- wgea-mcp — this one. Workplace gender equality.
- aus-identity — Postcode / state / ABN normalisation helper used by all sisters
Development
Issues and contributions welcome: github.com/Bigred97/wgea-mcp/issues.