About three-quarters of Labour MPs walked out of parliament directly after Key's comments on Tuesday, along with several Green members, the Guardian adds.. The following day, a number of female ...

New Zealand has a history of strong female representation. In 1893, it became the first self-governing nation to allow women to vote. Current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the nation’s third ...

New Zealand made history — or herstory — this week as female lawmakers became the majority, narrowly outnumbering their male counterparts in Parliament for the first time. On Tuesday, Soraya ...

A group of female MPs in New Zealand declared they were victims of sexual assault and walked out of parliament as part of a protest against John Key, the prime minister Credit: Photo ...

But New Zealand’s 48% female legislature is the highest of all OECD countries, alongside Mexico (where a 2014 law dictates gender parity in politics), and well above the global average of 25%.

Mahuta is one of New Zealand's 5 Māori ministers. Also contributing to the cabinet's cultural diversity are members of parliament Ibrahim Omer and Vanushi Walters, parliament's first leaders of ...

After New Zealand’s prime minister invoked rape in an angry parliamentary debate over the fate of New Zealanders detained at an Australian migrant-detention facility, female legislators ...

Suspending lawmakers is rare in New Zealand's parliament with only three members suspended in the past 10 years, according to New Zealand parliamentary services.

Within the formal, wood-paneled walls of the New Zealand Parliament chamber, woman after woman stepped in front of microphones Wednesday to take umbrage at a comment Prime Minister John Key made ...

But New Zealand’s 48% female legislature is the highest of all OECD countries, alongside Mexico (where a 2014 law dictates gender parity in politics), and well above the global average of 25%.

But New Zealand’s 48% female legislature is the highest of all OECD countries, alongside Mexico (where a 2014 law dictates gender parity in politics), and well above the global average of 25% ...

Within the formal, wood-paneled walls of the New Zealand Parliament chamber, woman after woman stepped in front of microphones Wednesday to take umbrage at a comment Prime Minister John Key made the ...