ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to report on women's status in management in New Zealand and to consider the influence of regulation and voluntarism on the progress of managerial women in the public and private sectors. While they have been increased in numbers in management in New Zealand over the past 20 years, there is a profound difference between glacial progress in the corporate sector and the steady if unspectacular movement in the public sector. Women's progress at the top in both management and governance in New Zealand is hampered by the absence of comprehensive equal employment opportunities legislation and positive duties and the lack of political will to compel the private sector to do better. Women in management also features in the New Zealand Human Rights Commission's submission to the Universal Periodic Review held by the United Nations Human Rights Council. New Zealand needs a circuit breaker to challenge the continuing indifference to women's status in management and governance.
