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.

"What's the gender breakdown at Commonwealth Bank?"
"Which mining companies set gender targets in 2024-25?"
"Workforce composition by occupation at Qantas"
"Sexual harassment policy responses across financial services"
"Promotions to manager by gender at Atlassian"

Sister to abs-mcp, rba-mcp, ato-mcp, apra-mcp, aihw-mcp, asic-mcp, and au-weather-mcp.

Install

uvx --upgrade wgea-mcp

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wgea": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["--upgrade", "wgea-mcp"] }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add wgea --command uvx --args -- --upgrade wgea-mcp

What it exposes

Five tools, all plain-English in, structured out:

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 (7 in v0.1)

Note on the headline gender-pay-gap %. WGEA's Data Explorer publishes a headline per-employer gender pay gap percentage. That specific aggregate is NOT included in the public CSV release — WGEA pre-aggregates remuneration data before public publication. Use this MCP for the underlying workforce composition + policy detail; use WGEA's Data Explorer for the headline pay-gap percentage.

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:

1. Live CKAN — package_show?id=wgea-dataset returns every resource; the newest "WGEA Data — Public Data File" wins. Cached 6h.

2. Bundled seed manifest — when CKAN is unreachable, fall back to data/seed_urls.json shipped in the wheel. The response is flagged stale: true with 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:

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 packages

• abs-mcp — ABS census + economic statistics

• rba-mcp — RBA F-tables (cash rate, FX rates, mortgage rates)

• ato-mcp — ATO tax statistics + ACNC charities register

• apra-mcp — banks, super funds, insurance

• aihw-mcp — health and welfare statistics

• asic-mcp — corporate transparency + AFS licensees

• wgea-mcp — this one. Workplace gender equality.

• au-weather-mcp — Australian weather

Development

git clone https://github.com/Bigred97/wgea-mcp.git
cd wgea-mcp
uv venv
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest                  # unit tests
pytest -m live          # integration tests against data.gov.au (downloads the ~71 MB ZIP)

Issues and contributions welcome: github.com/Bigred97/wgea-mcp/issues.