It’s ironic that in the week that I write about standards in the media, Andrea Vance, the national affairs editor for
The Post and
Sunday Star-Times, publishes a column about the government’s overhaul of pay equity legislation that directs the C-word towards the Finance Minister Nicola Willis and other female coalition ministers. The column has drawn sharp rebuke, with Willis describing it as “misogynistic and demeaning,” former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley calling it “appalling,” and National MP Judith Collins labelling it “repulsive.”
