About Still Minding the Gap.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.
2026 campaigns
Invoice the PM
We asked New Zealanders to invoice the PM for money lost to women because of the gender pay gap. Thousands responded and sent their own invoice for the amount lost.
Lift the Lid
Our ‘Lift the lid’ campaign saw thousands of New Zealanders put a biscuit in our online tin to show their support for pay transparency. We hosted a garden party on Parliament lawn in July to highlight the benefits of pay transparency.
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 it’s almost 16 percent, and for
for 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?
Drop a biscuit in the online tin to show your support for pay transparency
Sign up to the campaign so we can keep you posted on our actions
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