National MP Katie Nimon says working women feel vindicated after Stuart Nash resigned as a New Zealand First candidate following comments he made about her.Nash was roundly condemned as sexist on Wednesday by MPs at Parliament for calling National's Napier MP lazy for taking nine months off work at full pay.In reality, Katie Nimon took six months away from Parliament after having a baby.Winston Peters took to social media late on Wednesday night to say Nash had resigned and it had been accepted.Earlier, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ruled out Nash from serving as a minister in a government he leads.Nimon says she's received an outpouring of support from across the political spectrum."I'd just like to think that decency prevails in all of this," she said."A lot of working women have felt... personally vindicated."Just to see there are consequences for being hot headed and thoughtless with your words."Nimon says it's hard being a mum and an MP.She says she wants to be honest about that, and show women that everyone makes it work differently.Stuart NashRNZ / Angus DreaverOn Thursday, Nash said he had withdrawn as a candidate after discussion with NZ First leadership."A private message I sent has become a significant distraction, and I don't want that distraction to cost NZ First or the people of Napier the campaign they deserve."As a husband and a father of four (including two strong, independent daughters) I have real respect for any working parent, and I regret that my words were open to an interpretation I never intended. I could have made my point far better."The point I was trying to make is a simple one: that Napier deserves an MP who fights hard for this region, in the electorate and in Wellington. That belief is undimmed, and I'll keep advocating for Hawke's Bay in other ways."I want to thank the NZ First team, and to wish the Rt Hon Winston Peters and every NZ First candidate the very best for the 2026 campaign. It has been an honour to stand alongside them."Labour leader Chris Hipkins said in a statement on Thursday that Nash's comments were "sexist and wrong" and he had been right to remove Nash from Cabinet."He does not have the judgment or temperament to be a Minister. It is an indictment on both Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon that up until yesterday they thought he did."He accused Luxon of being selective in the way he approached standards of ministerial conduct."He's right that Stuart Nash's recent outburst was unacceptable, but so was Shane Jones' insinuations about him performing oral sex on a visiting foreign leader, Winston Peters making masturbation jibes live on TV and Shane Jones outright racism towards Indians, yet the Prime Minister did absolutely nothing about any of that."Yesterday's events were a stark reminder that a vote for any of the three parties currently in government is a vote for more of the same."Earlier on Wednesday, Luxon had called the comments "sexist", and said Nash was channelling the "manosphere".Asked if he'd have Nash around the Cabinet table, he only encouraged people to party vote National to avoid "numpties" from other parties.