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Download AudioThe Aotearoa diversity in leadership group, Global Women, says it’s disappointing that New Zealand women, particularly Māori and Pasifika, continue to lag behind men.
New statistics show the current gender pay gap of 8.2 percent has remained virtually unchanged since 2017.
Global Women chief executive Agnes Naera states that, as of this week, women are effectively working for free for the rest of 2024 compared to their male counterparts.
Naera says one crucial step to bridging the gap is making it mandatory for organizations to be transparent about what constitutes appropriate pay for a job, regardless of gender.
“Pay transparency is important. If we went in knowing what that pay was, we might be more likely to go, ‘Well, hey how come?’ We can only start with those questions. So pay transparency is really important – and the Human Rights Commissioner has been pushing for pay transparency for the last, I don’t know, four or five years,” says Naera.
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