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… Party from 1997 to 2001; Helen Clark (1999–2008), the first woman to become prime minister following an election, who … – the right to vote in national elections – was led by the first wave of women activists in the 1880s and 1890s, …
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Part of story: Gender inequalities
… role models and leaders such as Georgina Te Heuheu (the first Māori woman lawyer), Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan (the first Māori woman to become a cabinet minister) and Ngapare …
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Part of story: Ngā tuakiri hōu – new Māori identities
… Association (1953–60 and 1963) and in 1961 became its first woman president. In 1959 she was the only woman to be … finance, Bill Birch, expressing her outrage.) She was the first woman to become a city councillor in Palmerston North, …
Type: Biography
… Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm and crew, made the first historic crossing of the Pacific from California to … by men. In 1931 an Australian, Guy Menzies, became the first to fly the Tasman solo, and in a single-engine … 1934 from England to Australia, she became the fastest solo woman pilot to achieve the distance. Two years later she …
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Part of story: Aviation
… Jessie Isabel Hetherington, the first woman to be an inspector of secondary schools in New … where she continued her studies in law. During her first year, as the only woman law student she had to be …
Type: Biography
… Ethel Rebecca Benjamin was New Zealand's first woman lawyer. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 19 … for an LLB degree at the University of Otago. She was the first woman to be admitted to law school at the university …
Type: Biography
… expected a very experienced climber; her progress on her first climb was 'painfully slow'. Katie Gardiner was far … she returned to New Zealand where she became the eighth woman to climb Mt Cook. She did some of her climbing with … Mt Assiniboine, the Matterhorn of this range, and made six first ascents with guide Walter Feuz. This set a pattern …
Type: Biography
… contested the Western Māori seat and became the first Māori woman in Parliament. She held this seat for 20 years. Whetū … was appointed minister of tourism in 1972, making her the first Māori female cabinet minister. Sandra Lee won the …
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Part of story: Te mana o te wāhine – Māori women
… i tenei oranga.’ 1 (The time is coming when from my loins a woman will come of fair complexion. She will pave the way to … Te Atairangikaahu before Korokī's burial. She became the first woman to lead the Kīngitanga and the first Māori queen. Tāwhiao’s prophecy had come true. She …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… fertility was high. There were 6.5 to 7 live births per woman during this period – in 1878 there were almost 9 births per married woman. Māori fertility decreased at this time because of … than average fertility rate. Famous quads New Zealand’s first surviving quadruplets were born in Dunedin in 1935. …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Her hapū were Ngāti Kimihia and Ngāti Te Maunu. As a young woman she migrated south with these tribes to Kapiti Island … and the traditions tell of many other relationships. The first, in 1818, was to Te Rātūtonu, of Ngāti Māhanga in … that Te Rātūtonu should marry her and tried to reach him first. Te Rangitopeora won the race and threw her dogskin …
Type: Biography
… The Sex Hygiene and Birth Regulation Society The first meeting of what became New Zealand’s first birth control group, the Sex Hygiene and Birth … from Communist Party women who had set up the Working Woman newspaper. Nothing to do with Stan One woman …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… political science in 1892. In 1893 she gained her MA with first-class honours in English and Latin. While studying at … and Constitutional History', she said, 'that the idea first occurred to me of taking a law degree.…I did not know … but does not appear to have formally graduated. As a young woman Stella Henderson was described as being of 'more than …
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… in a thatched whare at Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, the first of 11 children of Hannah Stack and her husband, John … and undergrowth and across a stream, only to find that the woman was loath to move out on such a wild night. However, … scholar in history in 1915, in 1916 she graduated MA with first-class honours in history. In 1925 she was awarded a …
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… Described as the 'smartest Māori woman it has been my lot to meet' by an investigating … policeman, Puna Hīmene Te Rangimārie was one of the first to be prosecuted under the Tohunga Suppression Act … that this should be so.' Puna was convicted on the first charge; the second was withdrawn. The magistrate fined …
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… married 42-year-old John Oliver Craike, a grape-grower. Her first child, a son, was born in 1908; her second son, and … that the man responsible for the pregnancy, rather than the woman who had the abortion, should pay for her services. To … there, in September 1938, that she was visited by a young woman who preferred an abortion to a hastily arranged …
Type: Biography
… districts. The Canterbury United Council of 1979 was the first regional government body since the abolition of the … originally administered only part of the urban area. In the first half of the 20th century, Christchurch City absorbed … Later, Christchurch gave the country its first woman member of Parliament, Elizabeth McCombs, and its first …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… on 18 April 1939. Sybil worked at the garage as a car saleswoman until 1940, when a daughter was born. After an … member. As the club’s delegate in 1947–48 she became the first woman member of the executive of the new Association … Association of New Zealand). From the Otago club’s first competition in August 1947, which she won, Sybil Lupp …
Type: Biography
… Yvette Williams – the first woman medallist At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics Yvette Williams became the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic medal – a gold in …
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Part of story: Olympic and Commonwealth games
… Hineteiwaiwa is perhaps the most widely known atua. The first birth The original parents were Ranginui, the sky … they could live in the light. Hineahuone In tradition, the first woman was not born, but made. Her name – Hineahuone – means …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth