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Kōrero: Women and men

Learning baby care

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This 1946 film shows girls being taught the basics of mothering. At this point, just after the Second World War, and with a baby boom about to take off, many of the girls would be mothers within a decade. 

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Reference: Weekly Review 248. National Film Unit, 1946

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Mothers and voters: 1880s–1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/29219/learning-baby-care (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.