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.
Latest Updates
Despite overwhelming public support for mandatory pay gap reporting, new research shows many New Zealand businesses are failing to keep pace with public expectations — and in some cases are not prioritising pay gap analysis at all. Still Minding the Gap Media Release - Pay Gap Reporting
