6 Aug 2020

Covid-19: Attention must be paid to jobs for women during recovery - Employment Opportunities Commissioner

From Morning Report, 8:11 am on 6 August 2020

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.