• Ministry's plans for the next four years published

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    Today, the Ministry's strategic intentions for the next four years were released in our Statement of Intent : Our approach for 2018-2022.

  • Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia portrait gifted to Parliament

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    As part of the Suffrage 125 celebrations at Parliament on 19 September 2019, a framed portrait of prominent Māori suffragist Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia was gifted to Parliament by Hon Eugenie Sage, Acting Minister for Women.

  • Making history for women’s pay in New Zealand

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    On the 125th anniversary of the day New Zealand made history with women’s suffrage, the Government has introduced legislation that makes history for women’s pay, say the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Iain Lees-Galloway and Acting Minister

  • Suffrage 125 Community Fund recipients announced

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    Hon Eugenie Sage, Acting Minister for Women, today announced 42 successful applicants for the Suffrage 125 Community Fund, at the Kate Sheppard Memorial in Christchurch.

  • Government plan to fix women’s pay

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    At least half of the senior leaders in the public sector will be women by the end of 2019, and workplaces will be flexible “by default” are among goals in 

  • Change needed for mums

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    A report highlighting the barriers some single mothers face returning to work and navigating the benefit system shows the need for the Government welfare overhaul that has already begun, says Hon Julie Anne Genter, Minister for Women.