New research shows not only are Māori and Pasifika under-represented in the New Zealand university workforce - they're also likely to be paid less and less likely to be promoted.
Using New Zealand's Performance-Based Research Fund data, Māori and Pacific men and women had 64 per cent lower odds of being in the professoriate and 36 per cent lower odds of being a full professor over time.
The figures were even more dire for women - with Māori and Pacific women academics earning $7,713 less on average than non-Māori and non-Pacific men in academia.
Two of the five authors of the report join Kathryn: Dr Sereana Naepi is a Pasifika academic teaching sociology at the University of Auckland and Dr Tara McAllister is a research fellow at Te Pūnaha Matatini, University of Auckland.
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