Story: Gender inequalities

Broadsheet

Broadsheet magazine

Broadsheet, a monthly feminist magazine produced in Auckland from 1972 to 1997 and sold throughout New Zealand, played an important part in women's activism. Reporting on everything from politics to art to sexuality to crime, the magazine was a forum in which women expressed a broad range of concerns. Māori issues were at times a particularly strong focus, provoking fierce exchanges in the letters pages. Broadsheet also reported on issues of class and the position of women in unions. This issue from June 1985 featured articles on a controversial homicide, the impact of GST (goods and services tax), Māori women and the Human Rights Commission, and bulimia.

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Reference: June 1985
Photograph by Gil Hanly

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Anne Else, 'Gender inequalities - Areas of discrimination', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/28622/broadsheet-magazine (accessed 19 March 2024)

Story by Anne Else, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Jun 2018