pay equity Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    Odds against women in the Pay Equity Wheel of Fortune - by Catherine Delahunty



    On Saturday, I went to the Grey Lynn festival to talk to people about our women’s policy, and draw attention to the inequities between women and men when it comes to paid work. We invited festival goers to spin the Pay Equity Wheel of Fortune – Show Me The Money! read more
    November 22, 2011 12:43 pm - 12 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    International (Working) Women’s Day - by Catherine Delahunty



    Today is the day we salute the efforts of women everywhere for equity and justice for our gender and as workers. This year, our hearts and thoughts start and finish with women in Christchurch. I spent the weekend door-knocking on the streets of Aranui, Wainoni and New Brighton which are all low-income areas hit hard [...] read more
    March 8, 2011 2:56 pm - 7 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    No Minister, it’s not getting better for women - by Catherine Delahunty



    On Tuesday I asked the Minister of Women’s Affairs whether she was happy with the progress towards her goals of getting more women into leadership positions and closing the gender pay gap. She had to dance around a bit because no one could be happy with the evidence as presented in the 2010 Census of [...] read more
    November 11, 2010 2:09 pm - 4 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Equity for women stuck in reverse - by Catherine Delahunty



    Today the Biennial New Zealand Census on Women’s Participation in 2010 was released. It shows that women’s participation in governance, professional and public life is backsliding, and that we’re losing ground on the gender pay gap, with 24 public service departments having gender pay gaps greater than the total labour force. Depending on how you [...] read more
    November 8, 2010 5:53 pm - 3 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    The latest on the gender pay gap - by Catherine Delahunty



    On Thursday Statistics NZ released its annual Household Incomes Survey. The headline news from the survey was that average wages have dropped slightly in the last year – not great news for anyone – but I was interested to see the Government’s response on what the survey says about the gender pay gap between men [...] read more
    October 9, 2010 9:29 am - 70 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Wake-up call on women’s rights - by Catherine Delahunty



    Sunday was Suffrage Day, a day on which we are urged to celebrate the struggle for Votes for Women. Determined to celebrate, I attended several suffrage events, but ended up somewhat sobered by the work we still need to do to achieve gender equity in the 21st Century. The gender pay gap is 12 percent [...] read more
    September 21, 2010 1:48 pm - 17 Comments
  • frog

    Feminist Rapper Episode 2: Real Ladies Fight Back - by frog



    I posted episode 1 a couple of weekends ago. After watching the pay equity debacle in the house this week, I was reminded that real ladies fight back! It’s time for a little pay equity action, don’t you think? read more
    July 3, 2010 7:27 am - 1 Comment
  • Catherine Delahunty

    How many men is one woman worth again Pansy? - by Catherine Delahunty



    Late last week Women’s Affairs Minister Pansy Wong told the Institute of Directors that New Zealand’s “dismal record” of just 8.6 percent women directors in our top 100 listed companies needs to be changed. She wants to be a “catalyst” for that change. I couldn’t agree more, but she won’t get very far convincing companies [...] read more
    April 19, 2010 5:06 pm - 29 Comments
  • frog

    Economy with the truth on the gender pay gap - by frog



    Another Minister has been caught out misusing statistics and being economical with the truth. This time it is Women’s Affairs Minister Pansy Wong, replying to a question from Catherine Delahunty on the gender pay gap read more
    February 19, 2010 3:09 pm - 4 Comments
  • frog

    Why the National Party killed the pay-equity inquiries - by frog



    The Herald online highlighted the issue; The Government has axed two investigations aimed at improving the pay of women as it tries to save money by controlling public sector salaries. State Services Minister Tony Ryall said the investigations would “generate an additional form of remuneration pressure that is unaffordable in the current economic and fiscal [...] read more
    February 21, 2009 10:11 am - 70 Comments