Gender Equality and Pay parity

Join us for a panel discussion on Gender Equality and pay parity. Despite doing the same jobs, research and studies show that women are paid less than men. In New Zealand, there is a pay gap where women are paid on average 9% less than men. The gap between a Pasifika woman and a Pākehā man is more than 27%.

The gender pay gap is the average difference between the remuneration for working men and working women. It happens for a variety of reasons. At its most basic, it involves direct pay discrimination: men being paid more than their female colleagues for equal work, for no reason beyond their gender.

Session Moderator:

Ireen Rahiman- Manuel (Founder and Director of Impactdev360)- over 20 years of experience in design and planning, impact measurement, and working within the development sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and 14 Pacific Island Countries. Ireen has specialist skills in thoughtful leadership and has taken lead roles in the development of numerous national strategic and implementation plans which includes work in planning and policy development, sector strengthening, regional alignment and standardization of practice, and societal wellbeing.

Panel:

Claire Stuart (GenderTick Manager, YWCA) - Over the past 18 years, Claire Stuart has worked as a leader and influencer in roles that have had diversity and inclusion at their heart, being a driver for change in implementing inclusion initiatives. Today Claire is proud to be in her current role as GenderTick Manager, supporting and guiding organisations on their journey to inclusion with a focus on gender equality.

Ranjana Patel (Founder and Director, Tāmaki Health & Gandhi Nivas) - actively involved in many wider community groups and sits on numerous advisory boards including the National Ethnic Forum for NZ Police, CM Police, Middlemore Foundation, Mental Health Foundation, Diversity Works, Global Women and Co Of Women. She is the Executive Trustee of Total Healthcare, ISSO Hindu Temple, and past Director of Bank of Baroda. Ranjna has been awarded an NZ Order of Merit (ONZM), Queen’s Service Medal (QSM). She has also been inducted into the Co.OfWomen NZ Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs, won EEO Diversity Awards Walk the Talk and IBA Best Business Woman of the Year, and was a finalist for Westpac Women of Influence in Business and Entrepreneur for three years consecutively.

Natasha Lewis (Senior Policy Advisor Culture and Diversity) – International policy specialist in gender, human rights, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Named one of 100 Future Leaders in Government around the world by Apolitical, a global policy network, and one of three finalists for Young Professional of the Year (2018) at the Institute of Public Administration of New Zealand (IPANZ) Awards.

Haylee Putaranui (Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Fonterra) - Becoming a Mum to Waiaria at 17 provided Haylee with motivation to move through law school and into legal practice before joining Fonterra, where she is currently the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion. Haylee practiced land, commercial and Māori land law all aligned with supporting a more just and equitable legal system for Aotearoa NZ. Outside of mahi (work) Haylee has contributed to iwi (tribal) governance roles and led parts of her iwi (tribal) settlement with the Crown, a process that showed her from adversity and resilience can always come resolution and hope.

Haylee’s passion for D&I is driven by curiosity of what happens on ‘other sides’ of things i.e., conversations, fear, unknown, and ultimately progress for change + and all of the fun which happens along the way