Dr Marilyn Waring
Associate Professor in Social Policy and Social Work
Massey University, Auckland

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Dr Waring is Associate Professor in Social Policy and Social Work at Massey University in Auckland. Her previous position was as Senior Lecturer, having responsibilities for the Ph.D programme for the compulsory postgraduate paper in social science research methods.

In 1975, at the age of 22, Dr Waring became the youngest member and the only woman in the New Zealand Parliament. At 24, she became the Chairperson of the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee. From 1975-1984 she held select committee membership in Foreign Affairs and Disarmament and Arms Control, Health and Welfare, Statutes Revision, Members Service, the House Committee and the General Assembly Library Committee. Dr Waring was also a member of several Government Caucus Committees including the Economy (chair), Health and Welfare (chair), Agriculture, Arts, Employment, Justice, Maori Affairs, National and Regional Development, Education and Tourism.

Her publications include: Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work and Human Rights; A Woman's Reckoning; Mainstreaming Women in Agriculture Policy Planning; Women and Unpaid Work; Hu(man) Rights; Human Rights in the 21st Century: a Global Challenge; and If Women Counted/Counting for Nothing.

She was presenter and consultant on the documentary Who's Counting - Marilyn Waring on Sex Lies and Global Economics, and co-producer of A Women's Summit and Power and Powerlessness for Television New Zealand.

Dr Waring is a farmer, and also works as a national and international consultant.