With this in mind, as Minister for Women, I want to use the COVID-19 recovery as an opportunity to change and lay down the foundations to build back better for our women, and to make a more resilient future for our women and our girls. This means that we are working towards ensuring that our women are working in a variety of sectors and are better placed to tackle any economic crisis in the future, because we know from history that economic shocks disproportionately impact women in this country. We know that after the global financial crisis and after the Christchurch earthquakes, which were the most recent in our memory, but also after and during this COVID-19 pandemic, that women have been disproportionately impacted in the labour market.