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Achieving pay equity: Strategic mobilization for substantive equality in Aotearoa New Zealand

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  • Judy McGregor
  • Sharyn Graham Davies

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In an unprecedented move the New Zealand Government in 2017 announced a $2 billion pay equity settlement for 55,000 healthcare workers in aged and disability residential care and home and community support services. The settlement reversed the Government's previous austerity stance that pay equity for carers was too expensive, and that pay parity in the sector was out of the question. The political concession followed five years of intensive equal pay feminist activism. While pay equity settlements overseas have generally used either legal opportunity structures or government intervention, this article argues it was the combination of complementary and intersecting elements of mobilization that led to the negotiated settlement. These elements include a statutory human rights inquiry; legal opportunity; civil society coalition building; increased women's voice; and a government‐led negotiated settlement. The novel theoretical contribution of this article is its empirical support for the concept of substantive equality.

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  • Judy McGregor & Sharyn Graham Davies, 2019. "Achieving pay equity: Strategic mobilization for substantive equality in Aotearoa New Zealand," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(5), pages 619-632, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:26:y:2019:i:5:p:619-632
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12253
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