The Ministry for Women launched the Gender Pay Gap Toolkit in November 2024, developed with businesses across Aotearoa New Zealand to help them understand, measure, and take action on gender pay gaps.
Since then, we’ve continued to engage with employers across New Zealand to understand what’s working, what’s not, and how we can do better.
In this updated toolkit, we have widened the lens to include gender and disability to enable workplaces to take a deeper look at where pay gaps are in their organisation.
The Gender Pay Gap toolkit: connecting gender, ethnicity and disability, provides clear guidance on how to measure and interpret pay gaps, with practical advice on collecting data, analysing results, and reporting actions. It highlights the links between different types of pay gaps, helping organisations to identify overlapping barriers and focus their effort where it will have the greatest impact.
Whether you are just beginning to explore your organisation’s pay data or are looking to expand your understanding of your organisation’s pay gaps, this toolkit will support you to make evidence-based decisions, promote transparency and drive long-term change.
The toolkit includes:
- an online calculator to calculate the gender pay gap
- a guidance document to support you to calculate your gaps
- a downloadable workbook to assist organisations to prepare their data and calculate their gender pay gap
- a self-assessment tool that can identify actions an organisation can take to reduce their gender pay gap
- a new resource for small and medium-sized businesses, offering practical, tailored guidance.
- a resource for young women, developed with YWCA, to support confident conversations about pay
- templates and supporting guidance to support organisations to understand, calculate, and report their gender pay gaps.
All components of the toolkit use a common methodology that has been developed in partnership with businesses.
The toolkit has been designed to empower solution-focused conversations that will make a difference over time. It encourages organisations to look beyond the numbers to understand the drivers and implement meaningful change.