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Two big Auckland opportunities coming up in August Women's Choice Election Forum - 7th August, 7pm, University of Auckland Held ever...

So there's new local research out today that the gender pay gap is a) real and b) primarily due to conscious and unconscious bias. Fir...

Many thanks to Rebecca Matthews of the Pay Equity Challenge Coalition for permission to re-post this from their blog: An important leg...

Last Friday the Herald published an opinion piece I had submitted arguing for a living wage .  It was my 2012 aim to submit an op ed and I f...

Bad news on the gender pay gap today, as reported in the NZ Herald : The gender pay gap is the biggest it has been in 10 years, according...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

The pay equity discussion continues, with the Prime Minister saying there shouldn't be pay discrimination on the basis of pay and he...

Very quick post from me on the Issue of the Morning - Alasdair Thompson's incredibly sexist comments that women are paid less because of...

Thanks to a FB friend for directing me towards this thought-provoking column at Salon , including: When Paul Krugman warns that many of the...

Just a quick bit on this, no time for anything meatier from me tonight sorry. This is from a media statement from Sue Moroney (Labour) tod...

from monday's waikato times, this interview with the author of "why a man is not a financial plan", joan baker: For those wom...

On 18th February Catherine Delahunty asked the Minister of Women's Affairs some questions about the gender breakdown of appointments to...

Many thanks to all round awesome person Rebecca Matthews for sharing with us her speech to the Graduate Gender Pay Gap discussion in Wellin...

Readers may recall that I made an OIA request of the Ministry of Women's Affairs almost a month ago . I've asked for information ab...

Today's Ideas programme, presented by Chris Laidlaw this morning , I only caught a snippet of this, but it sounded great. (A reminder, ...

Although he thinks there is no problem, David Farrar of Kiwiblog has written about the gender pay gap research released by Pansy Wong yeste...

Organised by the NZ Federation of Graduate Women When: 6pm - 7.30pm, Tuesday 16th March What: Panel Discussion - on The Graduate Gender ...

Today in Parliament the Minister of Women's Affairs, National's Pansy Wong, claimed that the pay gap was now 11.3%, in response to q...

Coverage etc that I've found so far for today, Equal Pay Day (aka Red Bag Day): Anne's post earlier this week on Red Bag Day activi...

Big thanks to The Worker's Hero (aka Super G) for sending this pic through. They are outside the local National Party office in Hamilto...