Browsing School of Social Sciences and Public Policy by Author "McGregor, J"
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Fighting complacency and retrogression: reawakening gender equity activism In New Zealand
McGregor, J (International Sociological Association (ISA), 2014)New Zealand enjoys an impressive reputation for gender equality. It was the first self- governing nation to grant women’s suffrage in 1893 and scores highly in international indexes such as the World Economic Forum’s Global ... -
The impact of economic and social human rights in New Zealand case law
McGregor, J; Wilson, M (The Australian Human Rights Centre, 2015)Although New Zealand has traditionally relied on ‘positive progressive realisation’ of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) through public policy decision-making, recently there has been small number of cases relying ... -
New Zealand’s boardroom blues: time for quotas
McGregor, J (Women's Studies Association (NZ), 2014)Abstract Gender inequality in boardrooms remains a stubbornly pervasive feature of the story of women in New Zealand. Despite benchmarking and monitoring, a flurry of initiatives and the introduction of policy panaceas ... -
New Zealand’s experiment: closing the gender gap in higher education leadership through cumulative cultural change
McGregor, J; Ramsay, E; McCarthy, D (The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, 2014)The subject of this paper is a long-standing New Zealand (NZ) national university women’s leadership programme, NZWiL . Formally established in 2006, with the first program delivered in 2007, NZWiL was designed to address ... -
Pursuing Equal Pay: The Perspectives of Female Engineers and Potential Policy Interventions
McGregor, J; Graham Davies, S; Giddings, L; Pringle, J (Sage, 2016)The gender pay gap of higher paid women working in traditionally male-dominated sectors has received less analysis in equal pay research than low paid, female-dominated and undervalued women’s work. This article explores ... -
Stepping forward for gender equality: initiatives by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission
McGregor, J (National Women's Education Center of Japan, 2014)No abstract.