{"id":542069,"date":"2026-07-24T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542069\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:37:12","slug":"new-zealand-parties-asked-to-make-gender-pay-gap-reporting-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542069\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand parties asked to make gender pay gap reporting mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANZ NZ, a member of Global Women, is among the list of employers that are reporting their gender pay gap, and has been doing so for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Its average gender pay gap now sits at 18% favouring men, down from the 22.4% in 2021 when the firm first reported its pay gap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By measuring and reporting our gender pay gap we hold ourselves to account and ensure we are facing up to the challenge of addressing workplace inequality,&#8221; said ANZ NZ chief executive officer Antonia Watson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Chief Executive of ANZ NZ and a member of Global Women, I urge other large employers to seize the advantages of measuring and reporting the gender pay gap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The overall gender pay gap in New Zealand is at 5.2%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.women.govt.nz\/gender-pay-gaps\/new-zealands-gender-pay-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Ministry for Women<\/a>, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/specialisation\/diversity-inclusion\/new-zealand-launches-new-gender-pay-gap-calculator\/513994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched a Gender Pay Gap calculator<\/a> to help organisations measure and close the pay gap within their organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANZ NZ, a member of Global Women, is among the list of employers that are reporting their gender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56627,1144,111,43,139,69,266690],"class_list":["post-542069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-gender-pay-gap","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pay-gap-reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}