WEPs stands for Women's Empowerment Principles and WEPs is about empowering women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity.
It's essential to:

• Building strong economies

• Establishing more stable and just societies

• Achieving internationally-agreed goals for development, sustainability and human rights

• Improving quality of life for women, men, families and communities; and

• Propelling businesses’ operations and goals

More than 2900 business leaders around the world have demonstrated leadership on gender equality through the Women's Empowerment Principles.
Learn more about the business case to promote gender equality and how you can use the WEPs to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. 
Signatories to the WEPs are listed on the global website and include for-profit companies, Chambers of Commerce, industry associations and co-operatives that trade for profit while those organisations who do not meet these criteria but who have made a commitment to implement the seven UN WEPs principles are known as WEPs supporters. The New Zealand WEPs committee welcomes both signatories and supporters to take part in our programmes and complete the annual survey. 
Our aim is to work for gender equity in all New Zealand workplaces.

VIEW OUR NZ BASED SIGNATORIES AND SUPPORTERS

The NZ WEPs committee acknowledge the generous support of the NZ Work Research Institute in hosting, analysing and reporting on the annual survey from 2015 onwards.
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