“Women, especially women of colour, continue to face deep-seated gender inequality and are massively underrepresented when it comes to venture capital for start-ups. I’m a firm believer that through business, we can create a fairer world.”

“If we let an inch of the gains we have made over the last couple of decades slide, in a blink of an eye the inch will be a mile.”

All of the 25 young female leaders honoured in last year's Y25 Awards were entrepreneurs, she points out.

"There wasn't a single woman there who was working for a pay cheque and had a boss. And that is the future – if women aren't supported to stand powerfully in that future we're not going to be able to create a better world than the one we're currently living in."

Joanna Wane talks to Global Women's Agnes Naera and Theresa Gattung about #BreakTheBias, a worldwide campaign launched this week on International Women's Day.

Global Women, an organisation championing diversity in leadership, has calculated a 9.1 percent pay deficit - meaning women will be working for free until the end of the year from Monday.

Today in Aotearoa, the gender pay gap stands at 9.1 per cent (calculated using median hourly earnings from main wage and salary)*. Based on the fact that there is now 9.1 per cent of the year remaining, this means that from today, the average woman is effectively "working for free" until 2022.

A funding network only supporting ventures led by women-identifying and non-binary entrepreneurs with almost a 100 percent success rate aims to disrupt traditional capital raising for good

New Zealand sits near the bottom of the rankings of similarly developed countries for percentage of female corporate directors. We have been outperformed in our efforts to increase the numbers of women in private boardrooms by many countries including Australia, Germany, Norway and France.

‘I can watch Te Karere and understand what people are

saying for the first time, and to me that’s like a miracle.’

Very often we think making big changes in the world needs a big action. But each of us doing what we can in our communities can have a profound impact

The votes are IN, congratulations to this year's NZ Venture Semi-Finalists!

These 12 Semi-Finalists are doing everything from reimagining children's education to supporting people impacted by disaster to ending hunger in Aotearoa.

“There isn't much VC funding out there for women and so if these female entrepreneurs know about these women out there, and that there is support, they more likely to embark on this really amazing journey.” Lauren Fong