Women in Aotearoa

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Women have made their mark in Aotearoa through sports, the boardroom, politics and also as academics, writers, leaders and artists. Research how feminist movements fought for voting rights, equal pay and gender equality. SCIS no. 1809162

social_sciences, arts, english, health, Māori, history

Māori Women's Welfare League established

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Image: A poem for Whina Cooper

A poem for Whina Cooper

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Māori Women's Welfare League minutes

Minutes of tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth annual conferences

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UN Women

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Our Wāhine

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Ministry for Women

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Image: Two Women's Army Auxillary Corps officers in England, World War II

Two Women's Army Auxiliary Corps officers

Two Women's Army Auxillary Corps officers in England, World War II

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Women teaching preschoolers Māori language

Teaching pre-schoolers Māori Language

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Image: Photographs of Pay Equity protest, Parliament, June 2009

Pay equity protest

Photographs of Pay Equity protest, Parliament, June 2009

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Image: Mabel Voss and her Morris Cowley, 1929

Mabel Voss and her Morris Cowley, 1929

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Image: Women telephonists

Women telephonists

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Māori women

Maori women

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Summer fashions

Summer Fashions

Gisborne Photo News

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Maud Basham

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Image: Prime Minister Helen Clark: breaking the glass ceiling

Prime Minister Helen Clark: breaking the glass ceiling

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Personal grooming: women’s hair

Personal grooming: Women’s hair

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Bread and Roses

NZ On Screen

Nuku Women

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Women and the vote

Brief history - Women and the vote

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Image: Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

Hinetitama by Robyn Kahukiwa

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Five Māori painters at Auckland Art Gallery

Five Māori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Image: Maori women with kūmara

Māori women with kūmara

Maori women with kūmara

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Protest badge

badge, protest

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Image: Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa

Women voting

Women vote at their first election, Tahakopa

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Image: Scene at the United Women's Convention, Wellington

United Women's convention

Scene at the United Women's Convention, Wellington

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Contraceptive supplies

Display of contraceptive supplies

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Gender inequalities: Politics and citizenship

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Kate Sheppard

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Women in police

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Women

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War stories

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Image: Princess Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Herangi

Princess Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Herangi

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Image: Hitchcock, Mary J, fl 1908 : Occupation book

Occupation book by Mary Hitchcock

Hitchcock, Mary J, fl 1908 : Occupation book

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Slutwalk protest

Photographs taken at the Slutwalk event, Wellington

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Shop window display

A shop window in Willis Street

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A sporting chance

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Beyond Kate

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Image: Rutu by Rita Angus

Rutu by Rita Angus

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Measurement and data

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