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The first female head of state in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, is conducting a radical experiment on the nation’s boardrooms. She is personally committed to improving the status of women on boards of directors and regards boardroom representation as a symbolic ‘marker’ of women’s progress. The New Zealand Prime Minister has pledged through the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to improve the proportion of females on statutory boards to 50% by the year 2000. She retained the women’s portfolio for a period after becoming Prime Minister to give strength to female policy issues around the cabinet table and within the coalition government’s caucus. This gives her commitment political significance.
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Mcgregor, J. (2000). The New Zealand Experiment-Training to be on Board as a Director. In: Burke, R.J., Mattis, M.C. (eds) Women on Corporate Boards of Directors. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3401-4_9
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