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Urban women

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<em>Urban women</em>

Members of the Society for Research on Women (SROW), formed in 1966, present SROW's Urban women study to Minister of Finance Robert Muldoon in 1972. The SROW members are, from left, Mary Mowbray, Joan Stagpoole and Margaret Shields. Shields was to enter Parliament as a Labour MP in 1981.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-1972-2358

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Megan Cook, Women’s movement – Economic and political equality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27914/urban-women (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 7 April 2011.