Perceived Discrimination:
41% of people think women are face discrimination "some of the time", with 8% thinking they do "a great deal of the time".[Source]
Education:
The number of women and men who have NZQA L4 education levels is now roughly equal.[Source]
Careers:
- Two out of three female lawyers believe their gender will adversely affect their career prospects, new research has found.
- Although female law graduates have outnumbered male graduates since the 1990s, as of August last year, only 27 percent of partners and directors in New Zealand law firms were women.
- The women thought a lack of female partners and directors at law firms to provide support and act as role models would make it harder for them to advance. They were also concerned overt sexism from some male colleagues would work against them.
- Law Society figures identified 35 per cent of directors were female and 24 per cent of the 1951 partners were female, as at February 2016.
- The gap for median weekly earnings is now 11.8 percent, up almost 2 percent from a year ago
- National Council of Women president Rae Duff said jobs predominantly done by women were undervalued. "Sixty percent of women leave with a tertiary qualification, so we've got women who are more than capable, but they're just not getting into the higher management and pay positions."
"Caregiving, school support work - all those caring roles that women tend to be in aren't being valued," she said.
Do you get paid fairly? Pay gap worst it's been in almost 10 years
"Another factor is almost half the women workers in New Zealand are in occupations that are more than 80 per cent female, and female-dominated occupations are lower paid, according to 2009 research by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment."
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We got together as a group to combine our research and decide on speakers. I'll be speaking alongside Sam and Adeline.
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