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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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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. ...

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 the community they ...

Members Carolyn Luey and Cecilia Robinson on #BreakTheBias

Checking biases, calling them out, shifting internal dials: we all have a part to play in ...

Job-seekers asking about pay gaps, not salaries

The job seekers of today are asking about matters of diversity and pay gaps more than ...

Higher numbers of women in senior leadership teams linked to higher profit margins

A new decade-spanning study attests to the power of having more women on boards — as ...

Congratulations to Activate Alumni: Beth Wotherspoon

Musing about what the next career chapter has in store was part of the Activate Leaders ...

Theresa Gattung: Angel investors key to unlocking female potential in 2022

“We need a new growth engine to put us in the lead and we need to ...

Global Women Members Win New Zealand International Business Awards 2021

Two of the extraordinary exporters in the Global Women community have been recognised in this year’s ...

Meet our Newest Global Women Members

Michele Wilson Co-founder & CEO, AWWA Of Tainui, Ngati Paoa descent Michele is the CEO and ...

Women set to achieve parity on boards by 2045: Deloitte reports

The Deloitte Global Boardroom Program’s Seventh Edition of the Women in the Boardroom: A Global Perspective ...

C-suite inaccessible for many transgender workers

Our partners, McKinsey, have some new insights into the participation, plight, and precarity of transgender people ...

6 ways to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in 2022

New Zealand is currently home to over 230,000 ethnic Chinese residents, many of whom remain connected ...