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Kōrero: Suburbs

Women in the suburbs, 1950s

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This 1954 government newsreel, promoting the design of houses being built by private developers with state assistance, assumes that women’s main interests are housework and childcare.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Pictorial Parade 28. National Film Unit, 1954

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Mark Derby, Suburbs – Life in the suburbs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/25064/women-in-the-suburbs-1950s (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.