This report examines wāhine Māori access to representation, leadership, governance, anddecision-making roles in the public sector from 1990 to 2020. In essence, this report focuses on the extent to which wāhine Māori have led and participated in decision-making bodies that inform aspects of public life. The report delves into the systems of governance established by the British Crown and discusses the current iterations of governance as founded in Western thought. Crown policies and legislation that inform the ways leadership is decided and acted upon are reviewed throughout the report to examine the Crown's approach to wāhine Māori leadership in the areas of Crown governance. The emphasis on Crown governance is made here to distinguish from Māori governing institutions which also inform public life but do so through
different roots than the ‘public’ sector analysed in this report. In this way, reference to the ‘public’ sector is positioned in this report as the public institutions that receive significant
attention from local and central Crown governance (government ministries, city and regional councils, district health boards, parliamentary caucuses etc.).
(From the report). Record #9018