Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) brings together 21 economies to tackle challenges and help each other prosper.
The prevention of family violence and sexual violence will significantly improve the wellbeing of all women in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Violence against women and girls is widespread in New Zealand. Women are more likely than men to suffer abuse from a partner, including repeat victimisation, and are more likely to suffer sexual violence.
At the Ministry for Women, our people are a talented and diverse team who bring with them a range of different experiences and backgrounds.
Ngā wāhine kaipakihi: he tirohanga, Māori women in business: insights shows increasing numbers of Māori women active in businesses across all regions of New Zealand. Their businesses employ others and provide income for Māori women and their whānau.…
A brief literature review of the effective policies or programmes helping low income women get into better, higher-skilled employment.
Read Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women's Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2019.
This report from Manatū Wāhine is a country case studies on pay transparency in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland and the United Kingdom.
Mostly-NEET through 2015: Integrated data insights by motherhood status was presented at the 2018 Labour Employment and Work conference. It uses integrated administrative data to look at those who are long-term not in education, employment, or…
A literature scan commissioned by Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women to inform discussion of international best practice about preventing and responding to workplace sexual harassment.
These documents detail actions to increase women's participation on state sector boards and committees and women's participation as at 31 December 2018. It also includes the results of the Gender Stocktake of State Sector Boards and Committees…
The Ministry for Women provided input into the inquiry on the gendered implications of mental health and addiction. In it we noted: that gender-based violence can have a large impact on women’s mental health; that this violence is a major issue in New…
Read Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women's Annual Report for the year ended 30th June 2018.
This document sets out the Ministry's intentions for the following four years.
If you would like a hard copy of this report, please email info@women.govt.nz
The Government has committed to eliminating the gender pay gap within the public service, with substantial progress within this parliamentary term.
Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women interviewed 40 mothers in Whāngarei, South Auckland and Gisborne, to hear in their own words, their experiences of the social services they accessed both during pregnancy and with young children. Manatū Wāhine also…
