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We've partnered with New Zealand's low-fee, nonprofit KiwiSaver provider Simplicity to answer your financial questions. Co-founder and financial commentator Amanda Morrall talks KiwiSaver and working mums

- AMANDA MORRALL

In New Zealand, are there still inequities for women in the workforce? 

Women still have a way to go to reach equity here and elsewhere in the world. Only last month, female CEOs finally outnumbered CEOs with the first name John among S&P 500 companies (the leading publicly traded companies in the US), according to a new analysis from Bloomberg. In many sectors, women are still paid less than their male counterparts, with the average gender pay gap in NZ in 2022 at 9.2% overall based on statistics provided by the NZ government. The pay gaps for Māori, Pacific and other ethnicities are wider than for European women. 

What is the child premium?