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In Brief: Marilyn Waring on pay equity and the value of women’s work

Public Interest··16 August 2026·28 min

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More than a year after the government’s shock rewrite of New Zealand’s pay equity laws, the fight over the value of women’s work continues.Dame Marilyn Waring joins Public Interest to discuss what the changes have meant for workers, the decades-long struggle for pay equity, why women’s work remains undervalued, and what it will take to restore the progress that has been lost.