I would like you to release the individual gender pay gaps that make up the 14.1 pct gap reported as the Public Sector pay gap. So for example, what is the Ministry of Health's gender pay gap, Treasury's, the Ministry for Women etc etc. ideally these should be measured as per Statistics New Zealand's suggested method - median hourly wages, but failing that the method that went into the aggregate number would do. If the methods differ, I would still like to see the different measures of gender pay gap.

This is a serious issue for New Zealand women, who are earning, on average 14 pct less than men in the public service. Many NZ women are employed in the public sector so understanding which government departments are doing well i.e. have a narrow or non-existent gap versus those that have a wide gap, will help people and the agencies themselve understand who needs to do more work in this area. An aggregated number allows poor performers to avoid the transparency that is needed to tackle this problem.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. It's an issue that affects 51 pct of the population.