Archive | September, 2018

Lies, damned lies and statistics?  Telling accurate stories from data

Lies, damned lies and statistics?  Telling accurate stories from data By Nina Herriman, Chief Storyteller at the National Council of Women In my last blog, I briefly mentioned the importance of accurate stories and promised to talk about how we’re going use the Gender Dashboard to tell accurate stories about gender inequality. But first, let’s […]

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Suffrage 125 a milestone year for the National Council of Women

The National Council of Women is celebrating this milestone year by pushing forward to achieve gender equality for all New Zealanders with our Gender Equal NZ campaign. Today marks 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote. On 19 September 1893, after the suffragists submitted a petition with nearly 32,000 signatures New […]

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