Help us close New Zealand’s gender
and ethnic pay gaps
What is STILLMindingTheGap.nz?
STILLMindingTheGap.nz is campaigning for urgent action to reduce New Zealand’s gender and ethnic pay gaps.
We want the Government to make pay gap reporting mandatory for businesses over a certain size as an important step to close unjustified pay gaps.
Why do we want pay gap reporting?
The gender pay gap for all women is now around five percent. For wāhine Māori it’s 12 percent, for Pacific women almost 16 percent, and Asian women about 10 percent.
Only 20 percent of our gender and ethnic pay gaps can be explained by factors such as a woman’s education levels, occupation or experience. Up to 80 percent are being driven by decisions made within organisations about pay and promotions including unconscious and conscious bias.
Pay differences based on performance are justified. Pay differences based on gender or ethnicity aren’t, and that’s what we are focusing on.
What’s the solution?
A simple low-cost, high-impact solution exists: the Government can make it mandatory for businesses to report their pay gaps publicly. We know from overseas’ experience doing this should result in pay gaps dropping by 20-40 percent.
What can you do?
Sign up to the campaign so we can keep you posted on our actions, and follow and like us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Latest Updates
TVNZ Breakfast TV
26 November 2025
Spokesperson Jo Cribb was on Breakfast TV, laying out the facts for the STILLMindingtheGap campaign. That the pay gap exists and what that means for New Zealand women. Have a watch - we're on straight after the news.
TVNZ Breakfast, Wednesday 26 November. (6.06am)
SMTG Media Release
25 November 2025
From this week, all New Zealand women are working for free until the end of the year due to pay gaps in our workforce that have not been addressed. It is even worse for Māori and Pacific women who have been working for free since early October.
Still Minding The Gap Media Release
Does pay gap reporting work?
November 2025, SMTG Research
In her review of international research and evidence, Dr Jo Cribb discovered many countries are already taking action to make pay gap reporting mandatory - and it’s working. There is a growing volume of evidence that pay transparency measures are an important tool to reduce gender pay gaps.
Does Pay Gap Reporting work? A review of international research and evidence
Gender pay toolkit
Ministry for Women
Businesses can use the gender pay toolkit and calculator on the Ministry for Women website to work out their gender pay gap and help them take action to close it.
https://www.women.govt.nz/gender-pay-gaps/gender-pay-gap-toolkit
Pay equity is not just fair, it’s good for GDP too
05 November 2025, Newsroom
NZ keeps framing pay transparency in terms of compliance costs rather than productivity gains. Europe has already concluded that closing the gap is good business.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/pay-equity-is-not-just-fair-its-good-for-gdp-too