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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. The top industries that Māori women in business are involved in are: agriculture, forestry and fishing; professional, scientific and technical services and construction.

A brief literature review of the effective policies or programmes helping low income women get into better, higher-skilled employment.

Every year the Ministry carries out an external stakeholder survey. This is used to provide insights to the Ministry's relationships with stakeholders over its priority areas. 

You can view the 2019 survey report below.

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, undertaken annually by the Ministry for Women. This year, we have reached 47.4 percent women’s representation on state sector boards and committees – an all-time high!

Cabinet Paper: Report on Overseas Travel – attendance at 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 63), 9 to 16 March 2019, authored by Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women, 20 May 2019.  

A literature scan undertaken to identify research published from 2010-2019, on the nature of unpaid work that is undertaken by Pacific Island women in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Cabinet Paper: Proposed Overseas Travel – attendance at 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 63), 9 to 16 March 2019, authored by Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women, 25 February 2019. 

Advice that the Ministry has provided to the Minister for Women on a range of issues in 2019. These documents are historic and will not necessarily reflect the current status of the content. Where necessary, redactions have been made. 

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. 

The Ministry developed a 2018-2020 Gender Pay Action Plan. This was updated in 2020 and 2021.  

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 Zealand; that it is important that mental health and addiction systems and services are gender-responsive, and work for the women and girls who need them most. This includes women and girls facing multiple barriers to accessing support; and that some groups of women, such as Māori and Pacific women, and women prisoners, may be disproportionately affected by mental health issues and addictions and may require targeted support and services delivered in a gender-responsive and culturally-appropriate ways.

Official Information Act Requests - 2018

We are strengthening access to official information by publishing responses to Official Information Act (OIA) requests of public interest.