There's a new approach to tackle New Zealand's stubborn gender pay gap. 

Acting Minister for Women Louise Upston's announced a new tool businesses can voluntarily use to calculate the divide.

It replaces plans from the previous Government to make reporting mandatory. 

The national pay gap is 8.6% and has typically sat around 9-10% for the past decade.  

Business leader Dame Theresa Gattung told Mike Hosking that unconscious bias plays a significant role in why it exists. 

She says a good chunk of the pay gap is unexplained, and doesn't just relate to women taking time out of the workforce to have children, for example.

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There's a new approach to tackle New Zealand's stubborn gender pay gap.  
Acting Minister for Women Louise Upston's announced a new tool businesses can voluntarily use to calculate the divide. 
It replaces plans from the previous Government to make reporting mandatory.  
The national pay gap is 8.6% and has typically sat around 9-10% for the past decade.   
Business leader Dame Theresa Gattung told Mike Hosking that unconscious bias plays a significant role in why it exists.  
She says a good chunk of the pay gap is unexplained, and doesn't just relate to women taking time out of the workforce to have children, for example. 
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Dame Theresa Gattung: Business Leader on the gender pay gap and the Government's new voluntary tool

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