The first Pasifika academics at the University of Auckland's business school are two Tongan women, graduating tomorrow with PhDs. Sisikula Sisifa and Ilaisaane Fifita, both 31, started working as research fellows at the Business School this year. "When I was a student, I wished there were Pasifika female academics in the business school," said Sisifa. Fifita, who moved to Auckland in her final year of high school, said watching her parents build their family business from scratch was what inspired her to study the subject. But she found the Tongan women in her study also had an independent sense of self.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 26, 2016 06:45 UTC