National Women's Committee.

Women play a central role in TEU, as leaders at both the national and local level.

Gender discrimination continues to mar our workplaces, homes, and communities. The TEU has a network of women’s representatives in branches across the motu who have taken up the challenge to stand for women members and progress gender equality. The ‘Women’s Representative Network’ works alongside the National Women’s Committee which works as an active voice for women in the union at a national level.

National Women's Committee members

International Working Women’s Day

March 8 2026 is International Working Women’s Day (IWWD), where we honour the generations of wāhine who have fought—as workers, as thinkers, as leaders, as carers—for rights, dignity, and recognition.

IWWD remains a vital moment for us as union members to reflect on progress, confront ongoing inequities, and recommit ourselves to collective action.

  • Click below to print out a IWWD poster:

TEU_womens day_poster_v4.pdf

Te Ira Tangata

Te Ira Tangata is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism, gender equality, and activism in Aotearoa. The journal invites critical reflections and celebrations of research, teaching, and activism that are supportive of the Tertiary Education Union’s commitment to progressing gender equality and the empowerment of all women. All issues published to date can be found on our Key Documents page of this website.

Key Documents

Historical Documents