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Women kept out of the boardroom

Guest post — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:12:31 +0000

Stuff has a report telling us what we already know: an old boys' network keeps women out of the boardroom in Australia and New Zealand. This clubbiness is just one of the reasons we're such an unequal country. A small network of white middle-class males appoint each other to the boards of their companies, then set each other's pay

NoRightTurn – Catch-22

The Standard — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:37:28 +0000

The Nats won't give employees greater access to pay information to detect gender pay disparities, saying employees suspecting gender discrimination should a labour inspector to find the evidence. When 261 workers did just that the govt said it wouldn't look for evidence of discrimination without evidence there was discrimination.

What’s with the “babes”?

Anthony R0bins — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:52:15 +0000

Political equality - 118 years and counting - still some way to go....

FPP: A man’s world

The Standard — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:31:05 +0000

The Campaign for MMP has a series of vids that we'll be running. This one looks at how MMP has lifted the representation of women in Parliament. Makes you wonder about the people who want to send us backwards. By the by, due the paucity of women on National and ACT's lists, the next Parliament is likely be to be first since 1978 to see the number of women decrease.

The zen of Key

Eddie — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:35:49 +0000

Listening to John Key explain the lack of women on his list is like entering a place where words are devoid of both meaning and melody, and eloquence is heresy. When Key concluded "of course we'd like to have more women in the top 10 and that involves us putting more women in the top 10 if we possibly can", I heard the sound of one hand clapping.

Analysing the lists

Guest post — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:17:13 +0000

There's plenty of good posts around already on National's election list, how its dominated by white men and there's very little room for new blood. But just how bad is their list? I thought I would do a comparison of the ethnic and gender balance of the National, Labour, Green, and ACT lists. Judge for yourself.

Alasdair Thompson lolz

The Standard — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:03:14 +0000

Your morning Facebook-related Alasdair Thompson lolz.

This man is pure comedy gold.

If it quacks like a sexist duck…

Guest post — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:32:36 +0000

Sure Alisdair Thompson's comments today were sexist.

But they were also so dumb it's hard to be offended.

Queen of Thorns explains

Par for the course for women

Eddie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:13:51 +0000

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.

Hey Laydeez

IrishBill — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:57:29 +0000

Is it just me or is the idea of our Prime Minister joking around with Tony Vietch (a guy who threw his fiance down the stairs before kicking her in the back) about celebrities he’d like to shag just a little creepy?

Made in Wellington

Eddie — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:35:27 +0000

I went to see Made in Dagenham last night. The parallels between the dispute, that began when female workers at a Ford plant in the UK struck for better pay, and then equal pay with men, and the Hobbit fiasco were striking. But it's the dissimilarties in the outcomes that I was left pondering. Let's take a look at the two events:

At least Barbara Castle had some guts

Mike Smith — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:07:32 +0000

Wellington’s Embassy theatre hosted the New Zealand premiere of the Ring movies a few years ago. There’s another good movie showing there now. It comes from the producer of “Calendar Girls” and is called “Made in Dagenham”. It tells the story of women sewing machinists who went on strike for equal pay at England’s largest ...

Paul Henry’s jokes about women, deaf people and infant deaths, proudly brought to you by TVNZ

the sprout — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:15:01 +0000

Here’s a compilation from TV7′s Russell Brown from April this year, highlighting the value for money taxpayers get from paying Breakfast Bigot Paul Henry $300,000+ per year: ridiculing the appearance of guests whose opinions he disagrees with, ridiculing deaf people, women, and the disproportionate rate of infant deaths in developing countries – “but they’ve got ...

Key govt turn backs on police sex victims

Eddie — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:38:10 +0000

It just gets worse: "The Government has rejected a secret forum's recommendation that 10 women who alleged sexual misconduct by police officers get reparation." Sadly, I think this is just the Nats being cheap and unwilling to face their responsibilities. They don't care about the victims of police abuse, they care about saving a few dollars to pay for tax cuts.

Should’ve done it before, John

the sprout — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:59:17 +0000

It seems John Key is now belatedly wading in to look at whether it’s at last time to cut Andy Haden loose as a Rugby World Cup Ambassador. Apparently it was ok for Haden to talk about “darkie quotas” in the Crusaders and still remain a PR face of our nation, but now Haden has ...