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Business and Professional Women’s Clubs

Business and Professional Women’s Clubs

A group of members of the Levin Business and Professional Women’s Club are shown here after a 1968 public meeting (speaker Cherry Raymond is on the right). The Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs was then in a very active phase of its existence, and membership was increasing. The organisation was an important part of the campaign for equal pay.

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Megan Cook, 'Women’s labour organisations - Women’s organisations and employment, 1878 to 1939', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/26367/business-and-professional-womens-clubs (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Megan Cook, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Dec 2022