Working Women's Seminar
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About the ProgrammeHonouring the past. Defining the present. Looking to the future.2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Working Women’s Charter by the NZ Federation of Labour. It is also 50 years since the introduction of the Government Services Equal Pay Act 1960. The Working Women’s Seminar, held on May 1st, covered the following topics: How the Charter was born Success stories Māori women’s views and issues Case studies from diverse communities Young women’s experiences of inequality Moving images from the past The Charter’s journey so far Ideas for updating the Charter Birthday Celebrations Contact the Working Women's Seminar via Email. Speakers: Hazel Armstrong is a practising lawyer, who worked with the Wellington Cleaners’ Union during the campaign for adoption of the Charter by the Federation of Labour. Jessica Bignell is a postgraduate student in Social Anthropology at Massey University specialising in sexual violence. Sophia Blair is the current NZ University Students’ Association National Women's Rights Officer. Before this she was the NZUSA Co-President and prior to that, was involved in the Auckland University Students' Association. Sophia holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and is currently finishing her Honours degree in the same subject. Her dissertation aims to analyse the new challenges facing national women's organisations in the 21st century. Martha Coleman is a Crown Counsel in the Human Rights Team at Crown Law. She holds law degrees from Victoria University and from Yale, where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. She also spent a semester on a Human Rights Teaching Fellowship at Columbia University in New York where she focused on labour and equality rights. Martha was also a recipient of a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to study pay equity in Canada, the UK and Ireland. Prior to studying law, Martha worked as a trade union official in the Clerical Union, first as an organiser and then as Assistant National Secretary (Women’s Rights/Industrial). She has also worked as an researcher primarily in the area of equal pay, first at the Commission for Employment Equity in New Zealand and then at the Trade Union Research Unit at Ruskin College in Oxford. Martha remains active in union and women’s issues, including as the chief PSA delegate at Crown Law and as a ministerial appointee to NACEW, an appointment she has held since 2002. Lana Doyle is a Wellington-based lawyer working in dispute resolution, construction law, and government relations. She was admitted to the Bar in 2007. Taima Fagaloa is the Director for Pacific Health, Capital and Coast District Health Board and a second term City Councillor for Porirua City Council's Eastern Ward, one of two Pacific women City councillors in New Zealand. She has been active in providing services to a range of Boards and Advisory Groups relating to Pacific peoples. In 2008 Taima graduated with an MA Applied in Social Science Research from Victoria University. She is the current Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Group, Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs. Prior to managing a mainstream Health Provider in Porirua, Taima lectured in Social policy at Whitireia Polytechnic for five years. Taima has held the role of Co-convenor, Komiti Pasefika, Council of Trade Unions and has been a member of the Service and Food Workers Union. Kat Forbes is a graduate of Auckland University, has worked as a research assistant at Massey University, and is currently on maternity leave from her job in the public service. Margaret Long was active in the Public Service Association (PSA) around the 1960 Government Services Equal Pay Act 1960. Lyndy McIntyre has been active in the Aotearoa/New Zealand trade union movement since the early 1980s. She started out as a Printers’ Union delegate and went on to work for the Service and Food Workers Union, Finsec, the Nurses’ Organisation and the NZCTU. In 2005 Lyndy worked briefly for the ACTU. Most of Lyndy’s work has focused on coordinating union campaigns, and campaigns around women’s and environmental issues. She was campaign coordinator for the Nurses’ Organisation Fair Pay campaign from 2003-05. Lyndy was elected as a Kapiti Coast District councillor in 2007. She also currently works as a Community Campaigner for NZEI Te Riu Roa in a role focused on upskilling and empowering members to raise community awareness and organise community support for their campaigns. NZEI has just completed a two-month bus tour of New Zealand, taking NZEI's campaign on national standards in primary schools into communities across New Zealand. Lyndy is active in her local Green Party branch, public transport advocacy and the Pay Equity Challenge Coalition. Nadine Millar graduated from Massey University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Social Policy. She has three young children and is currently employed as a researcher/writer for the Good Morning Show at TVNZ. Denise Powell, president of Acclaim Otago (Inc), has experienced injury and disability herself, she has a professional interest in disability and education having held various positions in both the compulsory and tertiary education sectors. Kirsten Smiler (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Whakatohea) is a Māori researcher with an interest in Māori health and disability research. Kirsten works as a Māori Research Fellow at Health Services Research Centre based at Victoria University, is undertaking her PhD, and is the Mum of a lovely two-year-old boy. Maryan Street is a Labour List Member of Parliament, living in Nelson. Maryan has been the Minister of Housing and Minister for the Accident Compensation Corporation, as well as Associate Minister of Tertiary Education and Economic Development. She is currently Opposition Spokesperson on Trade, Tertiary Education and Treaty Negotiations. She has a BA (Hons) in English from Victoria University of Wellington and a Master of Philosophy with First Class Honours in Industrial Relations from Auckland University. She was the president of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1993-95. Before entering Parliament in 2005, Maryan was a teacher, a union official, an academic and an industrial relations practitioner. |
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