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Nats block pay equity bill

Written By: - Date published: 2:33 pm, July 6th, 2011 - 11 comments

rosie

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

Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, June 27th, 2011 - 58 comments

rosie

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

Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, March 11th, 2011 - 11 comments

hekia parata

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.

Let the Nats know that women matter too

Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, March 2nd, 2009 - 33 comments

National/ACT’s record for women so far has been dismal . Their work rights have been slashed by the Fire at Will law (women are disportionality employed by small businesses), they were all but excluded from the Job Summit (despite women being the most heavily affected by job losses and reduced hours), they got only a …

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