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Australia's whistleblower protection laws are "broken", and women who speak up are disproportionately exposed to reprisal risks, according to a new report.

The Human Rights Law Centre's Women Speaking Up report notes that most media coverage and public debate in Australia has focused on high-profile whistleblower prosecutions that involved men.

Mindful of the risk that women and gender-diverse employees won't see themselves as people who can blow the whistle, the Centre's Whistleblower Project legal service started to examine its data through a gendered lens.

"The perception of whistleblowing, as 'the man in the corporate sector in a suit', really influences whether people see themselves reflected in whistleblowing," Whistleblower Project lawyer Madeleine Howle tells HR Daily...