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Kōrero: Gender and sport

Bernice Mene, a Winning Woman

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Bernice Mene, a Winning Woman

The Winning Women programme, which was intended to encourage women and girls to participate more in sport, was one of the results of a conference on this topic organised by the Hillary Commission in 1993. Netballer Bernice Mene supported the programme by appearing on a Winning Women poster around 1998.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-WOMEN-1998-01

Courtesy of Sport New Zealand

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Sally Shaw, Gender and sport – Women and sporting codes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/40410/bernice-mene-a-winning-woman (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Sally Shaw, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 June 2016.