Your Diversity & Inclusion Strategy

What can Australia’s pay gap publishing bill mean for Aotearoa?

Australia has officially passed a bill through parliament that will help ensure the reporting of pay gaps. All organisations with 100 or more staff...

Why are senior-level women calling it quits?

Decades of honing their craft and climbing the career ladder is leaving little...

Is it time Āotearoa embraced a parental leave registry?

It’s no secret that we believe that transparency is a key driver of change. ...

Champions for Change — working together to achieve inclusive prosperity for Aotearoa

In the final Champions for Change Summit for 2022, a panel comprising Jolie...

The Champions for Change Pluse-Check

Prosperity and our sense of Nationhood Te Tiriti o Waitangi lighting the pathway forward With the demographic and social sands of Āotearoa...

Will Remote Work Help or Hinder the Pursuit of Equality?

Tides aren’t just changing when it comes to the status-quo of working styles....

Spark launches $1 million scholarship programme for Māori, Pasifika and women

When it comes to diversity in technology, women represent only 27% of the...

KPMG Publishes Māui Rau Report 2022

Global Women Partners, KPMG New Zealand, have recently released the latest...

Dellwyn Stuart and KPMG win at 2022 Diversity Works Awards

This year’s 2022 Diversity Works Awards has yielded a win for not only a Partner organisation, but also a Global Women Member! Congratulations to...

Inside NZ Police’s Wāhine Māori Recruitment Campaign

This year has seen no shortage of great strides made by Global Women Partners,...

Introducing our new Entrepreneur Leadership Programme

We’re proud to announce that we’re launching a first-of-its-kind...

Member Vanisa Dhiru on portfolio careers, intersectionality, and why she doesn’t want anyone to be the underdog

A key cornerstone in the Global Women Kaupapa is to influence the communities...

Member Vanessa Sorenson on Microsoft’s partnership with TupuToa to boost Māori and Pacific tech leaders

We’ve talked at length about the power in creating strong talent pipelines to promote workplace equity. We’re proud to announce that two local...

Women now make up a quarter of New Zealand’s police force

A new milestone has been reached in New Zealand Police’s mission to reflect...

Introducing Diversity Works’ Aotearoa Inclusivity Matrix

Measurable and actionable goals are key to a successful D&I strategy....

Congratulations to our Partners who have won Employers of Choice 2020 Awards

In a year that’s seen no shortage of shake-ups and constant disruptions in...

Your D&I strategy in 2020

To help kickstart your 2020 D&I strategy we’ve collated our top articles from 2019. Moving through 2020 our collective whakapapa to drive...

Fast 4 Questions: Miranda Burdon

Miranda Burdon has been the CEO of Global Women for the last three years. She...

Do we need a diversity and inclusion strategy?

To successfully achieve diversity in leadership at your organisation, you need...

FACTSHEET: Your Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

To successfully achieve diversity in leadership at your organisation, you need...

The 5 step diversity and inclusion strategy

Your Diversity and Inclusion Strategy should outline your vision and tell you which areas need priority attention. It should also explain why and how...

FACTSHEET: The Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion

Building a diverse and inclusive workplace isn’t just a...

How inclusive do New Zealand workplaces feel?

Global Women Inclusive Workplace Cultures Report 2018 Inclusive cultures good...

Fast Four Questions: Sonia Breeze, Partner – Consulting | Deloitte New Zealand

Global Women recently collaborated with major partner Deloitte on our Inclusive...

When the odds are stacked against you

Most men find it hard to believe, but the evidence is overwhelming. Both men and women consistently judge traditionally masculine traits positively...

Champions for Change publishes 2018 progress report

It is with tremendous pleasure that we open year three of the Champions for...

The commercial incentive of diversity

When Kate McKenzie started as Chorus chief executive one year ago, she also...

Why it’s essential to share the case for diversity

It’s 2018 and women are still swimming against the tide of deeply ingrained,...

Reimagining Diversity at Genesis

Three out of eight of Genesis Energy’s executive leadership team are women but CEO and Champion for Change, Marc England, says that gender...

What the future of work really means for you

He’s on a zero-hour contract, his job is about to be taken over by a robot,...

Top business leaders pledge to fast-track workplace gender diversity at 1 Day for Change symposium

On Suffrage Day, September 19, at the 1 Day for Change symposium organised by...

Time to act, says gender diversity Roundtable

As part of our commitment to encouraging, inspiring and driving increased...

Leading-edge diversity and ethnicity reporting tool launched by New Zealand business Champions

Forty-four of New Zealand’s leading private and publicly-listed companies have voluntarily committed to a new diversity reporting framework that...

But Why? Taking another look at the importance of cultural diversity in business

On the morning of 4 April, Global Women partners got together at Auckland War...

Champions for Change launch Diversity Reporting initiative

The first report using this framework—on data for the 2017-2018 year—will...

Fast Four Questions: Simon O’Connor, EY

A major sponsor of the YWCA Equal Pay Awards, Global Women investment partner...

Fast Four Questions: David Hisco, ANZ

Global Women partner ANZ recently won the Supreme Award at the YWCA Equal Pay Awards for the second year running. We grabbed a few minutes with CEO...

Lawyer Emily Morrow on her formative years

“My early memories were of my mother telling me two things: One, you can do...

The Rise of the Rainbow Flag in Corporate New Zealand: Three things we learned

Global Women hosts quarterly diversity and inclusion (D&I) MeetUps as an...

Fletcher Building proud to fly the rainbow flag

Fletcher Building received its Rainbow Tick certification last December, the...

Diversity of thought – the missing puzzle piece

‘Which Two Heads Are Better Than One? How diverse teams create breakthrough ideas and make smarter decisions’ – Deloitte Partner of...

Leaders’ diversity pledge a ‘foot on the accelerator’

The Champions for Change summit has produced an action-oriented plan to...

EY ramps up momentum with a D&I council

To create an engaged and therefore productive workforce, employees need be able...

Diane Foreman on growing your business – PwC Herald Talk

Global Women member and accomplished entrepreneur Diane Foreman won’t hire...

Increasing your Visibility: Lindsay Render’s journey

The Breakthrough Leaders programme launched a new concept this year entitled the “visibility challenge” where each participant must raise their...

Launch of the Superdiversity Stocktake

The Superdiversity Stocktake was launched last night by prominent lawyer and...

Little School founder Maria Johnson: leader profile

Teachers who turn to entrepreneurship bring to the table a mix of curiosity,...

Mihi Forbes, Monique Faleafa and Bo Li: panel on cultural intelligence

How culturally intelligent are we? On Tuesday Global Women hosted a powerful...

What Gets Measured Gets Done

This week Philippa Reed from Auckland Council joins us as a guest blogger. Continuing the theme of celebrating Matariki and Te Wiki o Te Māori, our...

New Zealand used to be about equal opportunities. Not anymore – Shamubeel Eaqub

Principal economist for the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research,...