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Kōrero: Women’s labour organisations

Unemployed women and government, 1933

The attitudes of Prime Minister George Forbes, leader of the United Party, and Gordon Coates, leader of the Reform Party, are satirised in this 1933 cartoon. Under the coalition government led by the two men unemployment had soared. The extent to which working women were affected was unknown, and the government was not interested in finding out.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: New Zealand Home Pictorial, 30 August 1933, p. 36

Permission of Auckland City Libraries Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Megan Cook, Women’s labour organisations – Women and unemployment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/26368/unemployed-women-and-government-1933 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011.