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Inside Fletcher Building’s Game-Changing Parental Leave Policy

Global Women Partners, Fletcher Building, has designed and implemented a brand new Parental Leave Policy. It ...

Let’s drop the Motherhood Penalty and make every mothers’ day

As we celebrate the mothers and figures in our life, we acknowledge every nuance of motherhood. ...

Champion For Change Matt Prichard on Shifting Parental Policies

Our Champion for Change, Matt Prichard, Executive Chairman at Partners KPMG New Zealand, gets candid in ...

Sharing the Parental Load + Fostering a Prosperous NZ

Earlier this year—precisely a year after our first lockdown— our Partners, Westpac, commissioned a report to ...

The Motherhood Penalty

We know that the Gender Pay Gap is a prevalent roadblock blocking women in Aotearoa and ...

FACTSHEET: Creating an Inclusive Culture

When companies offer a supportive, inclusive environment for a diverse workforce, they attract the top talent ...

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International Women’s Day 2025: Corporate NZ is doubling down on diversity, equity and inclusion  

This International Women’s Day, Global Women Chief Executive Katie Bhreatnach spoke to NZ Herald about how ...

Introducing our new Chief Executive, Katie Bhreatnach

We are delighted to welcome Katie Bhreatnach, our new Chief Executive Officer, to Global Women! Katie ...

Voices of Change: Tauranga wraps up the Women in Leadership Series 2024

Our Bay of Plenty Women in Leadership Series 2024 was wrapped up with a beautiful final ...

Vanessa Eparaima Appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal

Global Women congratulates member Vanessa Eparaima on her appointment to the Waitangi Tribunal. Vanessa (Raukawa, Tūwharetoa) ...

Congratulations to Global Women Members Recognised in New Year Honours List 2025 

Starting 2025 off on a high note, Global Women is thrilled to celebrate the five incredible ...

Global Women Member Alison Andrew Appointed Honorary Champion for Change

Congratulations to Global Women member Alison Andrew on her appointment to the Honorary Champions for Change ...

Gender at Work Dives Deep into Workplace Insights from Young Women & Non-binary People

Gender at Work, a social enterprise run by the YWCA, has partnered with Cogo on the ...

Dr Michelle Dickinson Farewells Nanogirl Labs After Eight Exceptional Years of Impact

After eight extraordinary years of bringing science to young people, Global Women member Dr Michelle Dickinson’s ...

Breakthrough Leaders Class of 2024

Congratulations to our Breakthrough Leaders graduates of 2024! This diverse group of wāhine from various sectors ...

NZ’s Gender Pay Gap at 8.2%: A Hidden Economic Crisis in 2024

As part of Global Women’s commitment to closing the gender pay gap, our chair Dame Theresa ...

This #NoPayDay we are calling on all New Zealand organisations to take action on closing the gender pay gap

Today we are calling on all New Zealand organisations to measure, understand and take action on ...

Celebrating Global Women Member Anne Fitisemanu’s Years of Service at TupuToa

In 2017, two years after Global Women established the working group that would blossom into the ...