“Men expect, “respect, and value women’s unpaid work, but they do not place any economic value on it. Until economic value is placed on women’s unpaid work, we will not gain political influence,” Miss Colleen Dewe, who led New Zealand’s delegation to the United Nation’s Women’s decade conference, said in Christchurch recently. She was discussing the conference, and women’s progress, with the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women. The branch celebrated the anniversary, of New Zealand women gaining the vote 87 years ago, and the N.C.W. formation in Christchurch three years later. Each year the branch honours one of N.C.’s most vital and long-serving members, Miss H. K. Lovell Smith. She was a step-daughter of Kate Shepherd, who guided the right to vote crusade from Christchurch as superintendent of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union for Women’s Suffrage. The movement is commemorated in the branch’s pageant in which Mrs Betty McLachlan, right, as narrator, and Mrs Shirley Havenaar, (left), representing the male membership of New Zealand’s 1890s Parliament, advocate their cause,
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172“Men expect, “respect, and value women’s unpaid work, but they do not place any economic value on it. Until economic value is placed on women’s unpaid work, we will not gain political influence,” Miss Colleen Dewe, who led New Zealand’s delegation to the United Nation’s Women’s decade conference, said in Christchurch recently. She was discussing the conference, and women’s progress, with the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women. The branch celebrated the anniversary, of New Zealand women gaining the vote 87 years ago, and the N.C.W. formation in Christchurch three years later. Each year the branch honours one of N.C.’s most vital and long-serving members, Miss H. K. Lovell Smith. She was a step-daughter of Kate Shepherd, who guided the right to vote crusade from Christchurch as superintendent of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union for Women’s Suffrage. The movement is commemorated in the branch’s pageant in which Mrs Betty McLachlan, right, as narrator, and Mrs Shirley Havenaar, (left), representing the male membership of New Zealand’s 1890s Parliament, advocate their cause, Press, 23 September 1980, Page 12
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