Tired of seeing important research and data on gender equality underused in academic journals, an economist decided to take the matter into her own hands.
A gender equality evidence hub appeared as the answer, providing a space for the latest research, evidence and data translated for employers, governments and teachers to put knowledge into action.
"It's about democratising information," economist Leonora Risse told AAP ahead of the hub's launch on Monday night.
"It’s one thing to conduct research and publish it in a journal, but it’s another to go further and translate that information into practice."
It's hoped the website, created with funding from the Trawalla Foundation, RMIT University and Women's Leadership Institute Australia, will become the bridge between academic research and change makers and result in policies that are proven to work.
"We want people to know they can trust this information, because this is a public good for social good," Professor Risse said.
"It will also extract more mileage out of academic research ... it's about empowerment through knowledge so that people can be more informed and have more informed conversations."
Australia has lacked infrastructure to gather evidence, check what works and share knowledge on gender equality but the hub would fill that gap, Assistant Productivity Minister Andrew Leigh will say at the launch.
"The heart of the hub’s mission (is) not to deliver verdicts, but to create a culture of learning," Dr Leigh says.
"I love that it doesn’t compete with existing organisations, it connects them. I love that it’s independent enough to say when something doesn’t work.
"I especially love its open-access ethos: that knowledge funded by the public should be shared with the public. In an age of short attention spans and long policy wishlists, this commitment to careful evidence is quietly radical."
Prof Risse hopes the hub will arm teachers and educators with gender equality facts and statistics to pass on to the next generation.
"We know teachers are struggling to broach the content of gender equality because there are students, particularly boys, who see on social media things like the gender pay gap doesn’t exist," she says.
"Gender equality is a topic that is so pervasive and everyone has an opinion on it, bit this hub is about is differentiating opinion from fact ... it's not just another initiative for gender equality it’s another dimension."
