About PGWNET

Pacific Graduate Women's Network (PGWNet) is a living, expanding and strengthening network, linking individual and groups of graduate women throughout the Pacific. It uses modern technology wherever possible to communicate quickly and widely to share ideas and information.

PGWNet's Mission is:

to advocate for improvements in the status of women and girls in the Pacific region so that they can contribute to the social, political and business life of their country and assume decision making and leadership roles.
to promote life-long education for women and girls in the Pacific region in order that they can take their rightful place in business, education and employment sectors, science and technology and the arts.
to enable graduate women in the Pacific region to use their expertise to effect social, political and economic change which recognises the human rights of women and girls.

PGWNet's Inaugural Meeting was hosted by Fiji Association of Women Graduates in Suva, Fiji, in July 1999 and also included members of the Australian and New Zealand Federations of University Women.

Since then, PGWNet has grown rapidly to include groups of graduate women living in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and the Marshall Islands. As well, there are individual members living and working in other nations in the Pacific region.

PGWNet is the youngest of the seven Regional Groupings of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW), which links 160,000 women graduates world-wide, with affiliates in 77 countries. PGWNet and its members participate fully in all IFUW activities.