Jenny Shipley, Mainzeal directors seek to overturn damages

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And I came across this just the other day:

"Once Governor General Cath Tizard had opened Parliament  & the new members were sworn in, work was underway.
To our horror, the new Govt's first act was to rescind the Pay Equity Act, & even worse, the minister who led the debate in her capacity as Minister of Women's Affairs  was Jenny Shipley. When I thought of the struggle that women had been engaged in since the turn of the century, & how strenuously Helen Clark had battled in Cabinet & in the House to have the legislation introduced & to steer it through, I was sickened. I didn't accept Jenny Shipley's contention that there were other & more effective ways of achieving pay equity.
We'd tried all those & they hadn't worked."

Marching on, Sonja Davies, published 1997

I remember that. An utterly disgusting betrayal of women.

I was living in a very feminist flat. The others were all a few years younger than me. One rejoiced to me that at last we had our first female PM. I replied that I'd have been happy to wait longer for a better one.

Indeed - between them she & Ruth Richardson & of course, their party, did some damage to this country. Not that the previous Labour one was much better - bloody Neo Liberalism!