Back in March, I remember I'd just finished an interview at TVNZ's Breakfast, I was en route to my next engagement and I read a Radio New Zealand article written by Anusha Bradley. The article was about the growing number of women experiencing injuries when giving birth, and their struggle for treatment. It included one experience shared by a woman called Susan. It was a distressing read but I instantly knew that this was something that needed to change. I asked my officials to improve gender balance, fairness, and equity in the ACC scheme, and birth injuries seemed like a reasonably important place to start. I was in the process of asking ACC for information about how different population groups, including women, were accessing support through the ACC scheme. It showed that women made fewer claims to ACC than men, have fewer injuries covered by the scheme than men, and each woman's claim cost the scheme a third less than a man's, on average, in entitlements.