Our expanded counselling programme now has a fantastic coordinator to provide supervision to students on placement with us, and to match women seeking counselling with the best-fit counsellor for them. We’re delighted that our inaugural counselling services coordinator is Veronica Cusack, one of our very first placement students (after a career change), now graduated! Veronica ...
We need strategic leadership from the Government on contraception Read the article here.
AWC welcomes the report, although much more action is required. Read the article here.
Access to abortion is a human right – and we need to make sure our politicians know it: that was the urgent message of the Auckland Women’s Centre’s successful recent public forum “Abortion, a Reproductive Right”. As student activist Ella Shepherd put it: “trust women, support women.” Read the article here.
Women in Aotearoa currently have the chance to press meaningfully for the legal right to decide whether or not we want to become parents. Read the article here.
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A good start – but it needs improvements. In June 2018 women’s average hourly earnings were 13.9% less than men’s. We need legislation that will quickly close this pay gap. Read the article here.
On 18 April the Government made the long-awaited announcement that it would provide money to settle caregiver Kristine Bartlett’s historic pay equity claim. The settlement will be phased in gradually over five years, and will increase pay for the overwhelmingly female workers in aged residential care, home support and disability services. Read the article here.
Which Party will help women? Read our review of this forum.
The National-led Government will have been in power for nine years by the time this year’s election is held on 23 September. But women are worse off now than we were in 2008. Why? Read the article here.
