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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...

Hope to see you there! What:  Public meeting as part of the 26 for Babies campaign, supporting Sue Moroney's bill to extend paid p...

What:  Public meeting as part of the 26 for Babies campaign, supporting Sue Moroney's bill to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks ....

Fantastic to hear the first reading of the Private Member's Bill to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks pass tonight.  Labour, Green...

This event sounds totally amaze, many thanks to Rebecca for telling me about it. Snippets from the  “ Diary of a Caregiver ” EEO Commis...

Judy Horacek cartoon shows female employee asking "I'd like paid maternity..." and employer responding "leave". ...

Currently I'm spending some of my time helping to raise funds for the Save Our Port campaign.  For me this is important work not just be...

While the details of the Ports of Auckland dispute get a bit complicated - at its core it is incredibly simple. The union isn't making d...

Port workers and their families on the picket line.  Child holds placard saying "All my daddy wants is a roster". On Saturday ...

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg talking at TEDWomen Sheryl Sandberg's TEDWomen talk on the lack of women in boardro...

There's some interesting - and worrying - news regarding employment for women in Christchurch in the aftermath of the earthquake: ......

There have been a few things that have inspired this post. I've really appreciated the voices emerging from the fat positive/size acce...

111 Meat workers are still locked-out from the jobs at in Rangitikei.  They've been more than six weeks without wages and they need supp...

Russel Norman's decision to stand down his EA because of the actions of her partner is a feminist issue. I'm going to leave alone wh...

Tonight Qantas management has locked-out its workers and grounded its plans across the world. The dispute itself is complicated, involving t...

Observation the First - If kids are going without breakfast their mums probably are too I get really fed up with the narrative that seems t...