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New Zealand women start working for nothing from this week.

Although the country's gender pay gap improved this year, campaigners say there is much work to be done to bring pay equality for New Zealand women.

Still Minding the Gap spokesperson Jo Cribb said for every $1 earned by a Pākehā man, a Pacific woman would earn 79c, a Maori woman 82c, an Asian woman 84c and a Pākehā woman 93c.

Cribb said this would be the week that all women started working for nothing. "It's going to be four weeks of nothing.

"Research shows women's education levels, occupation or experience account for less than 20 percent of why there is a pay gap.

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