The Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner says policy makers need to ensure jobs created for the Covid-19 recovery will employ women.
Ninety percent of New Zealanders who have so far lost their jobs due to Covid-19 are women.
The latest jobs report from Stats NZ shows 10,000 women make up the 11,000 people who are now unemployed.
The underutilisation rate - indicating when employees are working fewer hours than they'd like to - is also higher for women.
Dr Karanina Sumeo is the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner.