Project Gender
Profile
Project Gender is an innovation and social change agency creating positive impact through insights research, breakthrough campaigns and real-world solutions. Founded by Tania Domett, Angela Meyer and Erin Jackson, Project Gender’s mission is to ‘Bridge the gap between untapped market potential and ground-breaking solutions, by focusing on the most influential demographic globally. Women.’ They achieve this by taking an intersectional feminist approach, working in collaboration with all women, wāhine, trans, intersex and non-binary people.
Working across government, corporate and philanthropic sectors, Project Gender’s research and innovation spans all areas of gender-related needs and challenges including women’s health, sexual safety, trade careers and financial wellbeing. Their insights and advocacy have been influential in shaping public policy on gender issues.
Insight
Part demand, part manifesto, Project Gender’s contribution to 1001 Spheres project is an unequivocal and urgent call to action. NOW!
With broad expertise on gender and equity, Project Gender is often asked by entities keen to improve their diversity and inclusion statistics, to run workshops or provide training or mentoring for women. But it’s not the women who need to change, Project Gender is telling us in no uncertain terms ‘we are perfect as we are’. Gender equality will not be achieved by helping women fit better into a patriarchal system. It is the systemic inequalities and those it serves that need to change. And the time for that change is now.
Te Reo Glossary
Te Reo Glossary
ākonga
student, pupil
alofa
love, affection (Cook Islands Māori language)
Aotearoa
New Zealand
aroha
love, affection
haere rā
goodbye, farewell
hapū
subtribe, part of a kinship group
ira tangata
term used for intersex in a Māori context
irawhiti
term used for transgender in a Māori context
Itāria
Italy
iwi
extended kinship group descended from a common ancestor and associated with a distinct territory in Aotearoa
kairangahau
researcher
kaitiaki
guardian
kaitiakitanga
guardianship, stewardship
kia kaha ngā wāhine toa
be strong woman warriors
kia ora
hello, greetings
kia orana
hello, greetings (Cook Islands Māori language)
kōrero
conversation, discussion
kuia
female elder
mahi
work
māmā
mother, mum
mana
status, prestige, authority,
Māngere
a major suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand
Māori
Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand
mauri
life force, life principle
moana
ocean, sea
Ōtautahi
Christchurch, city in South Island, New Zealand
Ōtepoti
Dunedin, city in South Island, New Zealand
pākeha
New Zealander of European/foreign descent
peka
branch (of a tree, river, organisation)
Pōneke
Wellington, Capital of New Zealand
rangatahi
youth, young people
takatāpui
queer, gay, rainbow community
Tāmaki Makaurau
Auckland, city in North Island, New Zealand
tapu
sacred, prohibited
tautoko
to support, advocate
Te Kāhui Tika Tangata
Human Rights Commission, New Zealand
Te Kaunihera Wahine o Aotearoa
National Council of Women of New Zealand
Te Kotahitanga
Autonomous Māori Parliament from 1892 to 1902
Te Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa
the Pacific Ocean
te reo
the Māori language
Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora
Māori Women’s Welfare League
Te Wāhi Wāhine o Tāmaki Makaurau
Auckland Women’s Centre
tikanga
protocol, correct procedure
wāhine
woman, women
wāhine kaha
strong woman/women
waiata
song, chant
waiata taitoko
song of support usually sung after a speech
wairua
spirit, soul
whakapapa
genealogy, lineage
whānau
family, extended family group
whare
house, building