Are Kiwi Workerettes under-represented in business? According to the report issued by the Human Rights Commission on Women's Participation, less than 8 percent of directors on the boards of companies in New Zealand are women. Nearly two-thirds of the top 100 companies in the country have no women on their boards at all. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Judy McGregor states that since these companies are marketing their products to women, they would benefit from the presence of women on their boards.
On the flip side, companies owned by governmental agencies are more than three times the percentage of the private companies. "Crown-owned" company directors are 35 percent female, while 41 percent of directors of state owned companies are women. Several high-ranking women quoted seemed to feel, however, that the numbers of women in leadership in the country can (and should) grow as lower-level female workers gain strides and promotions.
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