The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service

Parker J; Donnelly N; Sayers J; Loga P; Paea S

The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service

dc.contributor.author	Parker J
dc.contributor.author	Donnelly N
dc.contributor.author	Sayers J
dc.contributor.author	Loga P
dc.contributor.author	Paea S
dc.contributor.editor	Rönnmar M
dc.contributor.editor	Hayter S
dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-14T21:35:43Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-14T21:35:43Z
dc.date.issued	2024-06-07
dc.description.abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted in a multi-faceted and gendered manner on the labour market in most countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand, high-level gender indices (GIs) have broadly captured this impact, helping to inform sectoral policy reform. However, these indices seldom capture more qualitative, nuanced and connected aspects of (in)equity despite increasing labour market and workplace diversification, and more scholarly attention on how these inequities are created, perpetuated or nuanced. The need for finer-grain analysis of women’s diversity encouraged a transdisciplinary study of working women in several public service agencies in New Zealand. Experts, employees and managers in the sector participated in in-depth interviews to help generate institution-specific gender indices which can be used alongside ‘conventional’ quantitative measures to closely assess workplace (in)equities. This study thus extends the conceptual parameters of GIs applied at national levels; provides a framework of equity considerations and (emergent) indicators for inclusion in organizational-level equity policy development; and briefly assesses meso-level equity indices with respect to the gender-responsive/accommodating/transformative or ‘gender-inclusive’ framework used throughout this volume.
dc.description.confidential	false
dc.description.place-of-publication	Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Northampton, United States of America
dc.edition.edition	1
dc.format.number-of-pieces	9
dc.format.pagination	160-188
dc.identifier.citation	Parker J, Donnelly N, Sayers J, Loga P, Paea S. (2024). The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service. Rönnmar M, Hayter S. Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work. (pp. 160-188). Cheltenham, United Kingdom and Northampton, United States of America. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited in association with the International Labour Office.
dc.identifier.doi	10.4337/9781035337477.00019
dc.identifier.eisbn	9781035337477
dc.identifier.elements-type	chapter
dc.identifier.isbn	9781035337460
dc.identifier.number	9
dc.identifier.uri	https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/72008
dc.publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Limited in association with the International Labour Office
dc.publisher.uri	https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035337477/book-part-9781035337477-19.xml
dc.relation.isPartOf	ILERA Publication series
dc.relation.ispartof	Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work
dc.rights	(c) The Author/s
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Gender equity
dc.subject	Intersectionality
dc.subject	COVID-19 pandemic
dc.subject	Institutional-level
dc.subject	Indices
dc.subject	Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.title	The potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service
dc.type	chapter
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pubs.organisational-group	Other