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Kōrero: Men and women in the city

Researching women

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Researching women

Not all suburban women were happy and fulfilled in their role as housewives. In 1966 a group of wives and mothers formed the Society for Research on Women in New Zealand. This is a cover of a 1972 report they released titled Urban women

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-K 934-COVER

Courtesy of Society for Research on Women in 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

Caroline Daley, Men and women in the city – Suburban women, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24602/researching-women (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Caroline Daley, i tāngia i te 21 October 2015.