Action Plan goals

The Action Plan for New Zealand Women is a whole-of-government plan to improve women’s lives in the home, workplace and community. 

It includes actions improve outcomes for mothers:

• Explore initiatives to increase women’s, particularly sole parents’, participation in the paid workforce (action 1.1.3).
• Enhance the provision of financial advice to women to improve women’s uptake of retirement savings schemes and to assist women in providing for their future and that of their families/whānau (action 1.2.1).
• Enhance women’s ability to retain attachment to the paid workforce and make real and beneficial choices about paid work and family commitments, by developing and promoting options that improve the work-life balance of all New Zealanders (action 2.1.1).
• Review the availability of social assistance support for childcare with a view to enabling families (particularly those on low incomes and in sole parent households) to make the transition to paid employment, education and training, and to help women increase and retain labour force attachment (action 2.4.2).