Association Shames Statistics for Women in
Leadership
2013
Auckland University Association
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1309/S00051/association-shames-statistics-for-women-in-leadership.htm
New
Zealand has a pervading problem with chronically low numbers of women entering
positions of leadership, with females comprising only 23% of public service
executives in New Zealand.
Despite
making up 62% of law graduates, women continue to be under-represented in
senior roles, with only 18% of partners in the ten largest commercial law firms
in Auckland being female as at February 2012.
The
gains we need to be making for women in leadership are long overdue.
Women are
more educated than ever but we are not seeing the same positive returns on
their education as their male counterparts. Income pay differentiation remains
a problem for women in leadership roles, and many women find that the high
demand of leadership roles makes them incompatible with motherhood.
Stereotypes
and discrimination continue to pervade leadership culture today, and this
cannot continue.” says Cate Bell, Auckland University President-Elect 2014.
The
high representation of women in student politics in 2014 at the University of
Auckland is certainly not reflected at the national level. Female MPs
consistently hover around 33% and in local body politics, there is only 29%
female representation.
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