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The Māori Women’s Development Incorporation has called for entrants for this year’s Māori Businesswomen’s Awards.
General manager Linda Clay says there are 17 awards across eight regions and nine categories.
She says kaipakihi wāhine Māori are one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial demographics in Aotearoa.
A recent study by economics consultancy Berl and the Ministry for Women estimated the value of the wāhine Māori economy including unpaid work at $12.5 billion, or 3.2 per cent of the Aotearoa GDP.
The young, fast-growing wāhine Māori population means by 2043, wāhine Māori will comprise 22 percent of the total wāhine working-age population.
Nominations close on August 25, and the winners will be announced at a dinner at the Pōneke Tākina Convention Centre on October 25.
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