Dame Theresa Gattung: Business Leader on the gender pay gap and the Government's new voluntary tool

The Mike Hosking Breakfast - A podcast by Newstalk ZB

There's a new approach to tackle New Zealand's stubborn gender pay gap.   Acting Minister for Women Louise Upston's announced a new tool businesses can voluntarily use to calculate the divide.  It replaces plans from the previous Government to make reporting mandatory.   The national pay gap is 8.6% and has typically sat around 9-10% for the past decade.    Business leader Dame Theresa Gattung told Mike Hosking that unconscious bias plays a significant role in why it exists.   She says a good chunk of the pay gap is unexplained, and doesn't just relate to women taking time out of the workforce to have children, for example.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.