title: Young law and management students' perception of their future career

authors: Dyer, Suzette L.

subjects: women law students

abstract: In this paper, we examine young women law and management students' perceptions of their future career. Using focus groups, women participants stated that the main barriers to their future career progression would be conflict between motherhood and pressure to work long hours and pay disparities. The participants were unaware, however, of the many persistent barriers that restrict women's career advancement. Moreover, the law students had constituted themselves as future working mothers, while the management students constituted women as unreliable workers because of potential motherhood. These perceptions suggest that these young women are already conditioned to assimilate into current gendered employment structures evident in these two professions and are ill prepared to challenge gendered practices that restrict women's career advancement.

text: Young law and management students' perception of their future career In this paper, we examine young women law and management students' perceptions of their future career. Using focus groups, women participants stated that the main barriers to their future career progression would be conflict between motherhood and pressure to work long hours and pay disparities. The participants were unaware, however, of the many persistent barriers that restrict women's career advancement. Moreover, the law students had constituted themselves as future working mothers, while the management students constituted women as unreliable workers because of potential motherhood. These perceptions suggest that these young women are already conditioned to assimilate into current gendered employment structures evident in these two professions and are ill prepared to challenge gendered practices that restrict women's career advancement.

year: 2008

title: Civil strategies for future generations

authors: Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor

abstract: This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

text: Civil strategies for future generations This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

year: 2018

title: Real world initiation of newly funded empagliflozin and dulaglutide under special authority for patients with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand

authors: Chepulis, Lynne Merran

subjects: GLP1RA

abstract: Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is sub-optimally managed for many in Aotearoa New Zealand, and disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific peoples. In February 2021, SGLT2i/GLP1RA agents were funded for use for the first time with prioritisation for Māori, Pacific and those with cardiovascular and/or renal disease or risk (CVRD). This study evaluates the impact of health system factors on initiation of SGLT2i/GLP1RA therapy. 

Methods: Primary care data was collected for patients with T2D aged 18–75 years from four primary care organisations (302 general practices) in the Auckland / Waikato region of New Zealand (Feb 2021 – July 2022). Initiation of SGLT2i/GLP1RA therapy was reviewed by patient (age, gender, ethnicity, CVRD status) and health system variables (funding, provider type, staffing, patient numbers, rurality, after-hours access). Logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratio of a patient being dispensed SGLT2i/GLP1RA. 

Results: Of 57,743 patients with T2D, 22,331 were eligible for funded SGLT2i/GLP1RA access and 10,272 of those (46.0%) were prescribed. Initiation of therapy was highest in Māori (50.8%) and Pacific (48.8%) patients (vs. 36·2–40·7% of other ethnic groups; P < 0.001), but was comparable in those with and without CVRD (47·1% vs. 48·9%; P = 0.2). Prescribing was highest in practices with higher doctor/patient numbers, low-cost fees, Māori health providers and clinics without after-hours access.

Conclusion: Prioritised access for SGLT2i/GLP1RA appears to be associated with a reduced health equity gap for Māori and Pacific patients with T2D in NZ, but work is required to improve prescribing for patients with CVRD.

text: Real world initiation of newly funded empagliflozin and dulaglutide under special authority for patients with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is sub-optimally managed for many in Aotearoa New Zealand, and disproportionately affects Māori and Pacific peoples. In February 2021, SGLT2i/GLP1RA agents were funded for use for the first time with prioritisation for Māori, Pacific and those with cardiovascular and/or renal disease or risk (CVRD). This study evaluates the impact of health system factors on initiation of SGLT2i/GLP1RA therapy. 

Methods: Primary care data was collected for patients with T2D aged 18–75 years from four primary care organisations (302 general practices) in the Auckland / Waikato region of New Zealand (Feb 2021 – July 2022). Initiation of SGLT2i/GLP1RA therapy was reviewed by patient (age, gender, ethnicity, CVRD status) and health system variables (funding, provider type, staffing, patient numbers, rurality, after-hours access). Logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratio of a patient being dispensed SGLT2i/GLP1RA. 

Results: Of 57,743 patients with T2D, 22,331 were eligible for funded SGLT2i/GLP1RA access and 10,272 of those (46.0%) were prescribed. Initiation of therapy was highest in Māori (50.8%) and Pacific (48.8%) patients (vs. 36·2–40·7% of other ethnic groups; P < 0.001), but was comparable in those with and without CVRD (47·1% vs. 48·9%; P = 0.2). Prescribing was highest in practices with higher doctor/patient numbers, low-cost fees, Māori health providers and clinics without after-hours access.

Conclusion: Prioritised access for SGLT2i/GLP1RA appears to be associated with a reduced health equity gap for Māori and Pacific patients with T2D in NZ, but work is required to improve prescribing for patients with CVRD.

year: 2025