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A pay and employment equity review is to be carried out by Massey University in partnership with the tertiary education sector unions.
The study will try to determine the extent to which gender affects women's pay and employment experiences, and find ways to remove barriers and achieve better outcomes for all staff.
The review was announced on Thursday by Alan Davis, the university's assistant vice-chancellor for people and organisational development, and the Tertiary Education Union national women's officer, Suzanne McNabb.
Davis said it had been planned for several months and was part of a range of initiatives signalled in the university's Road to 2020 strategy in relation to women and leadership and equal employment opportunity.
Early next year Massey staff would be invited to participate in a voluntary, confidential online survey about their experiences around pay and employment equity.
The survey information would be considered alongside payroll and human resources data that had been analysed by gender.
A review committee, to be chaired by Professor Sylvia Rumball, was being set up to analyse and interpret the information gathered.
Davis said 56% of Massey staff were women and 47% of the academic staff were women. However, only 17% of professors and 33% of associate professors were women.
"We are seeing some pleasing trends in the success rate of women in academic promotions rounds, but, if we are to achieve our goals of excellence in everything we do, we need to accelerate this and we need to establish a reputation as an enabling workplace free of practices that might hold talented people back," Davis said.
McNabb said Massey was the first New Zealand university to undertake a comprehensive review of pay and employment issues for women.
"Women workers care about pay and employment equity in the workplace - they want to be sure that they have the same opportunities to develop their skills, be promoted and participate at senior levels of the organisation," she said.
"Above all women want equitable pay. They want the work they do fairly recognised, valued and paid accordingly."
