Wgea MCP Server

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).

"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.

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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

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What it exposes

Six 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.

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Curated datasets (8)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.