This Zenodo entry includes data and R codes used to generate the figures included in the manuscript "Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access", authored by members of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). These include data that are either publicly available or derived through the COKI data infrastructure. The R file includes codes used to generate Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 1A, 2A and 3A. It uses data contained in the files "au_data_all.csv", "au_groupings.csv", "uk_data_all.csv" and "uk_groupings.csv". This entry also includes the full data files (.csv and .xlsx) for Figures 5 and 6 included in the manuscript: Figure 5: ‘Percentages of women academic staff (headcount) compared to the total number of academics in the institution for 43 Australian universities by grouping, 2020’. The analysis is of publicly available data sourced from the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment. Figure 6: ‘Percentages of women academic staff (headcount) compared to the total number of academics in the institution for a subset of 165 United Kingdom higher education institutions by grouping, 2020’. The analysis is of publicly available data sourced from the United Kingdom Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).