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New Zealand's Firms Are Letting Women Down
Eliminating the public sector wage divide won't move the needle enough.
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What's got four Marks, four Johns, three Simons, two Scotts, two Peters, two Christophers1510025890058 -- but just one woman? New Zealand's leading stock-market index.
Kate McKenzie -- who took the top job at Chorus Ltd. this February and hails from, er, Australia -- is the only woman chief executive officer among the 50 companies on the S&P/NZX 50 index. That's a remarkably poor performance for a country that was the first in the world to give women the vote, and among the first to elect a woman to office.