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Making New Zealand

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Making New Zealand

The link between men and work was taken for granted. This 1938 advertisement encourages use of New Zealand-made goods and features a blacksmith hammering out an ‘NZ’. However, despite the overwhelming masculinity of the image, the goods listed were made by both men and women.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 20 August 1938, p. 11

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Parallel worlds: mid-20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/29232/making-new-zealand (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.