THREE KEY FACTS According to Ellevest, an online investing platform for women, women’s number one source of stress is money . The 2018 FSC report Towards Prosperity showed only 8% of women make up key personnel in KiwiSaver funds management and only 21-25% of women are employed in senior roles in professional financial services. New Zealand has only two companies in the top 100 of the international Equileap 2024 Gender Equality Report & Ranking.
In the third of our Money Month series, co-founder of Hi Money and Project Gender, Angela Meyer, shines a light on the state of New Zealand women’s financial lives . OPINION “ href="https://www.nzherald.
co.nz/topic/finance/3/" target="_blank">I’m looking for a man in finance , 6′5′′, blue eyes, trust fund,” sings a young woman in a recent social media trend. Flash mobs featuring these stereotypical “men in finance” dancing outside financial districts in the UK and the USA have gone viral.
But behind every good joke lies a truth: the financial system remains overwhelmingly controlled by a specific group – men – leaving women and other under-represented groups on the fringes..