Editing Order of Australia (section)

===Gender breakdown===
[[File:Percentage of Order of Australia honours to women.svg|thumb|200px|Chart of the percentage of Order of Australia honours awarded to women in each year since 1975]]
Since 1975, just over 30 per cent of recipients of an Order of Australia honour have been women.<ref name="gender">{{cite news |title=When it comes to Order of Australia honours, women are largely left out |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-07/women-lacking-queens-birthday-order-of-australia-awards-list/11187978 |access-date=9 June 2019 |work=ABC News |date=7 June 2019 |language=en-AU |archive-date=30 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030092543/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-07/women-lacking-queens-birthday-order-of-australia-awards-list/11187978 |url-status=live }}</ref> The number of nominations and awards for women is trending up, with the [[2023 Australia Day Honours]] resulting in the highest percentage of awards for women to date (47.1 per cent, 47.9 per cent in the general division).<ref name="ad2023">{{cite web |title=Australia Day 2023 Honours List |url=https://www.pmc.gov.au/news/australia-day-2023-honours-list |website=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet |date=25 January 2023 |access-date=26 January 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126003618/https://www.pmc.gov.au/news/australia-day-2023-honours-list |url-status=live }}</ref> Advocacy groups such as Honour a Woman and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency have called for greater effort to be made to reach equal representation of men and women in the order.<ref name="gender" /><ref name="canbtimes">{{cite news |last1=Whyte |first1=Sally |title=Women still less recognised than men |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6204700/women-still-less-recognised-than-men/ |access-date=9 June 2019 |work=The Canberra Times |date=7 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=30 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030051108/https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6204700/women-still-less-recognised-than-men/ |url-status=live }}</ref>