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Kōrero: Men and women in the city

Suburban stay-at-home mum

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Suburban stay-at-home mum

For much of the 20th century a suburban woman’s main role was as a stay-at-home parent: raising children and keeping house, epitomised in this 1989 image of a young mother and her children.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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

Reference: EP/1989/2196/2

by John Nicholson

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

Caroline Daley, Men and women in the city – Suburban women, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24598/suburban-stay-at-home-mum (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Caroline Daley, i tāngia i te 17 December 2009.