Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Countries: New Zealand
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"All property of either spouse or partner that is not relationship property is separate property" (9). "(1) Except as provided in any enactment, the rights, privileges, powers, capacities, duties, and liabilities of a married woman shall, for all the purposes of the law of New Zealand (whether substantive, procedural, or otherwise), be the same in all respects as those of a married man, whether she is acting in a personal, official, representative, or fiduciary capacity. (2) This section shall apply to every married woman whether she was married before or after the commencement of this Act, and whether the marriage was solemnised in New Zealand or not, and whether she...more

Countries: Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Uganda
Variables: ERBG-DATA-6

"Australia has come fifth in a list of countries with the most women business owners as a percentage of total business owners. Ghana is at the top of the list, with 46.4% of businesses owned by women. Following Ghana is Russia with 34.6%, Uganda with 33.8%, New Zealand with 33%, and then Australia with 32.1%" (para 1-2).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

Geneticist Professor Alan Bittles, of the Centre of Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University in Western Australia, was quoted saying first-cousin marriage could become more prevalent in New Zealand and Australia if immigration from Muslim countries increased (KMM-CODER COMMENT). "Although the numbers of people gaining residency from Muslim dominated countries has gone down, there are an estimated 30,000 followers of Islam in New Zealand. Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) president Javed Khan said the prevalence of first cousin marriage varied between different Muslim groups. 'As the community grows there is more interaction with people outside your immediate family and as a result of that I have rarely come...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Administration Act, Sec. 78.

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: LO-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), the law prohobits discrimination in access to credit based on gender. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Human Rights Act, Arts. 21(1)(a) and 44. According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), a woman can sign a contract in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Property (Relationships) Act, Sec. 49. According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), a woman can register a business in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Companies Act, Sec. 11...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-3

"If buyers were criminalised, I’d be able to call the police on them if they crossed my boundaries. The threat of that would act as a deterrent for their worse behaviours. But under decriminalisation there’s absolutely nothing I could do. Men are larger and stronger than me and I’d have to fight them off basically. It’s against the law to not wear a condom in prostitution in New Zealand and I think there’s up to a $2,000 fine but that penalty is applied equally to the sex buyers and the prostituted person as if it were an equal decision. Whereas we know that it’s the buyers who press for no...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1

"I don’t think we do any better. No one ever asks anyone in prostitution if they’re there by choice. They just tell us that we are. I don’t think there’s any investigation into prostitution in New Zealand because it’s been decriminalised so officials can wash their hands of it. Germany will have more trafficking of women from overseas simply because it’s a larger country with land borders with other nations while New Zealand is a small island at the bottom of the world, completely isolated, and so New Zealand mostly traffics its own citizens into prostitution. A lot of the women who are being trafficked don’t know that that is...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-LAW-4

"'The fully decriminalised system that was adopted in New Zealand in 2003 is held up by many people in the UK as the best system.' The full decriminalisation model decriminalises people bought in prostitution and also decriminalises the buyers and pimps, and any kind of profiteering. It isn’t a regulated system like legalisation might be – it’s more of a ‘turn the other way’ system. It’s easy to get a brothel license – you just have to fill out a brief form." (para 7-8).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1

"The cultural attitude that prostitution should be empowering to the women means that women are blamed for being disempowered as if they’re some kind of failure at their job or they are seen as mentally ill if they acknowledge that it’s not empowering." (para 34). "Decriminalising it has destigmatised buyers and pimps. They’re legitimate businessmen – the guys running the brothels. The women are very much still stigmatised – because that has to happen in order for them to think it’s OK to treat us like this – we have to be dehumanised. So, it’s not likely that you would put on your CV that I worked at this establishment...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-LAW-2

"One of the claims about the New Zealand model that we often hear is that it recognizes ‘sex workers’ as workers, which means they are covered by employment law and have the same rights and protections as workers in other industries. What this actually means is that prostituted women gain another pimp – the Inland Revenue Department, who wants to take a cut of the profit that pimps make in selling people for sexual use. In brothels we aren’t covered by employment law because we fall awkwardly between definitions of employees and independent contractors. It’s disputed whose responsibility it is to pay the taxes and levies – whether that’s the...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-LAW-3

"I was actually really shocked when I read this question because how does decriminalising make it easier to enforce any boundaries? It’s actually impossible. If buyers were criminalised, I’d be able to call the police on them if they crossed my boundaries. The threat of that would act as a deterrent for their worse behaviours. But under decriminalisation there’s absolutely nothing I could do. Men are larger and stronger than me and I’d have to fight them off basically. It’s against the law to not wear a condom in prostitution in New Zealand and I think there’s up to a $2,000 fine but that penalty is applied equally to the...more

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: LBHO-DATA-1

"Soraya Peke-Mason from the liberal Labour Party was sworn in to Parliament on Tuesday, replacing former Speaker Trevor Mallard, who left to become ambassador to Ireland. With the resignation of another male lawmaker, it has tipped the balance in Parliament to 60 women and 59 men" (para 1).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: VOTE-LAW-1

"In 1893, [New Zealand] became the first nation to allow women to vote" (para 5).

Countries: New Zealand
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

Soraya Peke-Mason…was sworn in to Parliament on Tuesday…'Whilst it's a special day for me, I think it's historic for New Zealand,' Peke-Mason told reporters" (para 1-2). " 'I’m just really pleased that my daughters are growing up in a country where women being equally represented in public life is just normal,' said Nicola Willis, the deputy leader of the conservative National Party" (para 6). "Marama Davidson, co-leader of the liberal Green Party, was more blunt. 'About blimmin' time,' she told reporters" (para 7-8). "[Current Prime Minister Jacinda] Ardern cautioned that the situation for women in many other countries was precarious...'As we step forward, it feels as if we watch so...more