Summary of prevalence of workplace racial harassment among Māori workers In the last five years over half (52%) of Māori workers have experienced at least one of the racial harassment behaviours we measured. Similar to sexual harassment, difference in lifetime vs. behavioural prevalence figures suggests a gap in understanding in what could be considered racial harassment in the workplace. PREVALENCE RATES RACIAL HARASSMENT 25% 52% …of Māori workers report being ‘racially harassed’ in their working life. …of Māori workers in the last 5 years experienced one or more of the racial harassment behaviours measured in the survey. 34% …of Māori workers are aware of racial harassment affecting others in their workplace in the last 5 years. “Little off-hand jokes about being Māori, poor and having lots of kids. Also a couple of times rumours about myself harassing someone and it getting taken out of proportion, but when talking to that person everything seems fine.” - Māori male who was working in the retail trade sector “[In my current job] I deal with racism from other departments. I work for [a government organisation] and we will get excluded from events, but they will call on us to do pōwhiri etc. when they need a token Māori. Staff will often ignore us when walking into the office, they have the kind of looking down on you attitude... just a whole lot of being treated differently.” - Māori female who was working in the public administration and safety sector “Being Māori is often looked down on and people just make jokes about Māori people being thieves and criminals without a second thought.” - Māori female who was working in the retail trade sector KANTAR PUBLIC 2022 63