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Standing in the Sunshine - Power

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In 1893 New Zealand women won their right to vote, but it took another 40 years until Elizabeth McCombs entered Parliament as the country's first female MP. Series Standing in the Sunshine was made to celebrate the suffrage centennial year. In this episode a gallery of female MPs including Helen Clark, Ruth Richardson, Jenny Shipley and Marilyn Waring discuss Parliament's overwhelmingly male environment and its slow recognition of women's realities. For other political players like Eva Rickar...

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1993

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