Story: Women’s movement

More links and websites

• National Council of Women of New Zealand

  This women’s umbrella organisation has existed since 1896.

• New Zealand women and the vote

  Information about women’s suffrage in New Zealand, on the NZ History website.

More suggestions and sources

• Dann, Christine. Up from under: women and liberation in New Zealand, 1970–1985. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, Port Nicholson Press, 1985.
• Else, Anne, ed. Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.
• Grimshaw, Patricia. Women’s suffrage in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Macdonald, Charlotte. The vote, the pill and the demon drink: a history of feminist writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1993.