Election 2020 - Party Policies - Family - Women's Issues
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Women's Issues
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- Ensure fair processes for resolving pay equity claims.
- Legislate for working conditions that enable people to care for themselves and their dependants, recognising that people have responsibilities outside of work.
- Maintain 26 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Introduce a Carer’s Leave for those caring for dependent, immediate family members.
- Establish a universal child benefit.
- Explore regulations to ensure positive representation of women in New Zealand media.
- Work with wāhine Māori to design and implement programmes and policies to reduce existing social and economic disparities between Māori and nonMāori women
- Provide accessible and age-appropriate education about sexual health, consent, and contraception.
- Protect the freedom to have an abortion
- Fund and strategically respond to research into causes of infertility, in order to protect fertility.
- Read more here and here.
- Continue to work towards achieving the goal of 50 percent women’s representation on state sector boards by 2021, having already reached 49 percent by December 2019.
- Read more here.
- Give all expecting mothers an entitlement worth up to $3000 that can be used to commission services to support their child’s first 1000 days of development.
- Continue work to reduce unjustified disparities in pay between men and women doing similar work, and identify and address barriers to women’s participation in the workforce.
- Invest in retraining programmes to help unemployed women get back into the workforce, including SkillStart, which will pay training providers $4000 for every unemployed Kiwi they can retrain and get back into full time employment.
- Provide targeted funding of $20 million over four years to reduce mortality rates of gynaecological cancer, and a further $200 million to purchase drugs for the treatment of cancer.
- Re-establish funding for the National Sexual Violence Survivor Advocate, the position previously held by Louise Nicholas, to advocate on behalf of survivors.
- Read more here.
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