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… where laws were made or administered. There was no woman member of Parliament until 1933, and for several more … set up rape crisis centres and refuges. Women’s refuges The first women’s refuges opened in Christchurch (1974), … funding for the NCIWR. Rape in marriage During the first decades of the 20th century several court cases …
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Part of story: Family violence
… , built by Arnold. Ruth rowed her husband to work and their first son to kindergarten. She enjoyed sailing, and they … friend was Elsie Locke , a writer and pacifist. As a young woman Ruth was quiet, shy and gentle, and her rejection of … had an adventurous spirit. Her early dream was to be the first woman to reach the Antarctic, and her social …
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… of the human spirit. In 1898 Bessie Spencer became first assistant at Napier Girls' High School. In 1901 she … retired from teaching to run an orchard and apiary. For the first 18 months she lived at Awataha with Geraldine and John … of the Hawke's Bay Women's Club, on the advisory board of Woman To-day magazine, and in 1934 was the only woman on the …
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… president and committee member. In 1927 she became the first woman to sit on the Whangārei Hospital Board, and was a … High School board of governors, the second woman and the first old pupil to be a member. She was the first president …
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… bailiff, and his wife, whose name is unknown. As a young woman she taught in the parish school at Woolfardisworthy, … Possibly Elizabeth Horrell continued to teach until her first child was born in May 1850. Times were hard in Devon … John and Elizabeth Horrell decided to emigrate with the first group of settlers, as assisted steerage passengers. …
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… did some nurse-aiding, and worked in munitions during the First World War. On 24 November 1917 in London she married a … 1926. While there Agnes (usually known as Nan) became the first woman to serve on a school committee in Waikato and founded …
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… as an Australian soldiers’ magazine in France during the First World War, the monthly Aussie published a New Zealand … ground to other magazines. It folded in 1963. New Zealand Woman’s Weekly The first issue of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly came out in …
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Part of story: Magazines and periodicals
… Before 1920 there was almost one horse for every man, woman and child. From 1920 motor vehicles reduced the ratio … and was distant from the island’s main trunk route. In the first decade of the 20th century work began on two lines … to Moutohorā, which always ran at a loss, closed in 1959. First flight In 1922 Harry Barker, later to be a …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… (the death of a child may be overcome, but the death of a woman is a calamity) shows the importance of producing … it was called a whare ngaro (lost house). Conception When a woman had difficulty conceiving she would go to a tohunga, … the hei tiki talisman was said to help with conception. The first tiki was given to Hineteiwaiwa by Tāne for this …
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Part of story: Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
… and Erin Baker Former swimmer Rick Wells came third at the first official world championships in Avignon, France, in … titles in 1987. Erin Baker is New Zealand’s greatest woman triathlete. As a schoolgirl, she was a top-flight swimmer and distance runner. In 1984 she won the first of more than 100 triathlons. In 1985 she was the first …
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Part of story: Triathlon and multisport
… an asylum attendant and later a bricklayer. Until the first of her three children was born she worked as a … 1893 she went with a group of women to vote for the first time at the Army Hall in the centre of Auckland and … 1935 when her daughter Ray Wynn was elected president. When Woman To-day , a monthly magazine for women, began …
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… bust’, the birth rate dropping to about two children per woman for both Māori and Pākehā in the 1980s and beyond. … pill’ gave women real control over their fertility for the first time. With reproductive choice, more women delayed … scene for what was called the ‘sexual revolution’. ‘For the first time, the bonds of sex and reproduction had been …
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Part of story: Contraception and sterilisation
… increasing poverty and landlessness of Māori, it became the first political group to transcend tribal loyalties and … began to stand for Parliament under the Labour banner. The first Labour government provided social welfare benefits to … Rātana (Te Āti Haunui-ā-Pāpārangi) became the first Māori woman MP in 1949. She won the Western Māori seat following …
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Part of story: Tōrangapū – Māori and political parties
… Jane Francis married Thomas Harris, a market gardener. The first of their seven children was born a year later. Jane … and spiritualist doctrine was evident in her paper 'Woman's work and destiny', which she read before the Thames … offered Jane Harris a speaking engagement in Melbourne. At first she demurred, but her financial plight became known …
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… began mountaineering. In 1903 she and two others became the first women to cross the Copland Pass, a snow-covered, … of Mt Cook. Kain was criticised for taking a 57-year-old woman on such a demanding climb without another guide, but … Jane Thomson was the second woman to traverse Mt Cook; the first was Freda Du Faur in 1913. Jane Thomson lived for her …
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… kept house for the family and helped establish the first Sunday school in the district. When the Otago Boys' … persistence, for girls' secondary education in Otago. She first appealed to her neighbour and friend, Major J. L. C. … series of interruptions, from press reporters, a breathless woman with news of a buggy accident, and a German band …
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… friends and family) served an apprenticeship and became a first-class tailoress on a weekly wage of 25 shillings. She … spoke out against exploitation of female labour during the First World War, and opposed the use of women to displace … succeed Runciman, because he thought it natural that a woman should be secretary of a women's union. Skills like …
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… Her family emigrated to New Zealand in 1894, settling first in Wellington and then, in 1905, at Tapanui, Otago, … all the careers you like…but you'll die a disappointed woman unless you marry and go down this awful, painful, … contraception. In 1925 Doris Gordon became the first woman in Australasia to gain a fellowship of the Royal …
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… in business flourished in other fields. New Zealand’s first woman doctor, Emily Siedeberg, was Jewish; so was the first woman lawyer, Ethel Benjamin. Michael Myers became …
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Part of story: Jews
… Mary Manson Bain was born in Dunedin on 31 March 1887, the first of thirteen children of Alexander Manson Bain, a … the 1940s she wrote an astrology column for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. As a result she achieved a high level of … the Auckland City Council (1938–44 and 1953–61, its second woman member after Ellen Melville ); the Auckland Transport …
Type: Biography