Today marks Founders’ Day for the National Council of Women of New Zealand – 122 years since Kate Sheppard and other leading suffragists founded the gender equality organisation in 1896. This year also marks Suffrage 125. On 19 September 1893, after the suffragists submitted a petition with nearly 32,000 signatures – which was also supported […]
Help lead NCWNZ and Gender Equal NZ
Applications are invited for three board members for three year terms. Do you believe in a Gender Equal New Zealand? If so, consider becoming a Board member of New Zealand’s iconic gender equality organisation – the National Council of Women New Zealand, founded by Kate Sheppard. We’re in the midst of re-positioning ourselves to finish […]
New Zealand’s first Gender Attitudes Survey shows strong ideas about what boys and men “should” be like hold us all back
Gender Equal NZ, led by the National Council of Women, has today released the results of New Zealand’s first Gender Attitudes Survey, along with the Good Guys animated short film and infographic. “We carried out this demographically representative survey with Research NZ in late 2017” says National Council of Women CE and Gender Equal NZ […]