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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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Coach, Mentor, Sponsor: What’s the Difference?

Coach Guidance on soft skills Coaches help guide your development. You can both reach out to ...

Fast Four with Simon Moutter

In one of Simon Moutter’s final interviews as MD of Spark, he sits down with Global ...

The Future of Work: A Summary

The Future of Work: Developing productive, sustainable, and socially-inclusive work models in the face of rapid ...

5 Steps to Flex

Getaflex, the job site that only advertises flexible work, is the brainchild of Amy Prebble. On ...

Flow: a deeper dive

In a follow-on from her recent article on Flexibility vs. Flow, Global Women CEO Siobhan McKenna ...

Flexibility or Flow… is being there everything?

SIOBHAN MCKENNA, GLOBAL WOMEN CEO A note on this month’s topic – ‘flexibility in the workplace’. ...

Is ‘the norm’ still working for you?

Yemi Penn is the managing director of Penny Consulting and W Squared Coaching. She mentors and ...

Survey highlights Kiwis’ attitudes to flexible working

Only one in four New Zealand workers feel comfortable “leaving loudly” during normal work hours to ...

Is the question “is this your first child?” appropriate at a pre-interview meeting?

Am I being too sensitive for wondering if the question “is this your first child?” is ...

Queen’s Birthday Honours: Global Women Members Recognised

The Global Women Team sends our warmest congratulations to Dr Hinemoa Elder and Dr Jackie Blue, ...

The real cost of distrust

Reflecting on the global financial crash of a decade ago, commentators today agree that something accelerated ...

Cindy Hook: They said ‘it’s going to bankrupt us’. I said ‘I don’t care’.

Californian Cindy Hook is one of those people who lifts the energy of the room when ...