The proportion of women in full-time employment almost doubled between 1936 and 2006, although there was a temporary dip in women’s employment at the end of the Second World War.
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Source: Anne Horsfield, Women in the economy: a research report on the economic position of women in New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Women’s Affairs, 1988, p 257; New Zealand official yearbook, 1990 and 2008
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