International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day; the fight for equality still has some way to be won…
Women’s Affairs
Nats block pay equity bill
The Nats are all in favour of pay equity for women. Or so they say. But their actions speak louder than their words.
Sexist dinosaur Nats
Employers and Manufacturers Association head Alasdair Thompson’s sexist outbursts have drawn near universal condemnation, and are likely to cost him his job. But while we’re about the business of punishing sexist dinosaurs, we should set our sights a little higher than Thompson.
Par for the course for women
With the Government’s most useless Minister, Pansy Wong, gone under a cloud of corruption and replaced by a new MP who has been labeled by some as a future Nat leader, we might have hoped that the Women’s Affairs portfolio would get some decent treatment and we would see a real commitment to closing the pay gap. Well, we can stop hoping.
Women’s Affair Scrap
Minister for Minorities (Womens, Pacific, Ethnic and Assoc Maori Affairs – when she’s not busy with Courts or Disarmament) Georgina te Heuheu was […]
National still hate women
Despite women being 51% of the population, and it being women who won National the last election, they are still showing their contempt […]