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Te Mahere Whai Mahi Wāhine: Women’s Employment Action Plan was launched today by Minister for Women Jan Tinetti – with the goal of ensuring New Zealand is a great place for women to work.

From 23 June 2022, the My Board Strengths tool is no longer available to use. This means existing users can no longer access their accounts or reports and no new accounts can be created.  

Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women has received additional funding in Budget 2022 to continue to support improved outcomes for wāhine women and kōtiro girls. Budget 2022 provides for additional funding of: 

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) recently launched the Empowering Change tool; a step-by-step tool for policy professionals to apply gender analysis to their work.

Minister for Women Jan Tinetti delivered a pre-recorded statement at CSW66 in New York yesterday in a high-level roundtable discussion on the topic You can find more information on CSW66 here

Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women congratulates Maisy Bentley and Vaiola Tauti who have been selected as the non-governmental delegates to join the official NZ Government delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from 14th-25th March 2022.

Minister for Women Jan Tinetti today announced financial support will be allocated to the 160 successful applicants for the COVID-19 Community Fund, to support organisations helping women/wāhine and girls/kōtiro in Aotearoa New Zealand affected by the p

The Government has achieved its target of 50 percent women on public sector boards and committees, Minister for Women Jan Tinetti announced today.

Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women has received additional funding in Budget 2021.

Manatū Wāhine the Ministry for Women has begun work to develop a Women’s Employment Action Plan as part of the Employment Strategy.