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What the Budget means for women
By Jennifer Curtin, Suzy Morrissey and Sarah Bickerton Jennifer Curtin is the head of the Gender Responsive Analysis and Budgeting project, run out of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland, with funding from MBIE, Suzy Morrissey is a Research...
Why Gender Budgeting Matters: Submission to the Victorian Parliament – Jennifer Curtin
Submission to the Inquiry into Gender Responsive Budgeting Professor Jennifer Curtin Director, Public Policy Institute University of Auckland [republished from Victorian Parliamentary Website https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/paec/article/4346] 2 December 2019...
Where does gender equality fit into the Budget?
Jennifer Curtin and Suzy Morrissey discuss how gender differences might impact the Government’s budget priorities *Originally published in Newsroom. Republished with permission. The Wellbeing Budget is a new initiative for New Zealand. However, asking states to go...
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Masculinity and merit: Debunking myths of political leadership in the pandemic age
The recording of this panel discussion is now available, featuring Professor Jennifer Curtin talking about New Zealand's policy responses to COVID-19 through a gender lens. Also featuring Fiona Buckley, Sabine Lang, Claire Annesley and Pedro Dos Santos. Hosted by...
Rethinking the Representation of Women: Politics and Aotearoa New Zealand’s “Diversity Dilemma”
Professor Jennifer Curtin Date: Tuesday 28 July Time: 5.30-6.45pm Location: General Library, 109-B10 Address: 5 Alfred Street Register now In 1986, the Royal Commission into electoral reform argued that the Mixed Member Proportional system would help to ensure the...
Watch: Gender Impact Analysis Policy Forum 2
Advancing Equal Pay and Women’s Economic Wellbeing post-COVID19 Recorded Wed 10 June 2020 Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1972, gender pay gaps remain an intractable feature of the New Zealand labour market. Compared to their male counterparts, women on...
Watch: Gender Impact Analysis Policy Forum 1
Gender Impact Analysis: Women workers and COVID-19 Wed 13 May 2020 Speakers: - Saunoamaali’i Kararina Sumeo (Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, Human Rights Commission) - Traci Houpapa (MNZM JP CFInstD. NACEW, and Federation of Māori Authorities) - Andrea...
Watch Professor Susan Himmelweit: ‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality’
‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality: The experience of the UK Women’s Budget Group’ Recorded 1 March 2018. All rights reserved. Since 1989, the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG), a group of academics, activists and trade unionists, has tried to hold...
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