Margaret Mahy
Authorhas had 200 books
published, ranging from picture books to YA novels and everything in between. Her books have been published in the US and UK, where she is very well known. Margaret is also a winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Award.
Barbara Kendall
Gold Medal Board Sailor
1992 -Barcelona Olympic title- the first for a female New Zealand athlete for 40 years
1996-Atlanta Olympic Games - silver medal earned her the title of Athlete of the Year in her country, a title awarded to her on two other occasions.
2000- Sydney- bronze - became one of the three female athletes with the most medals in sailing.
2004- Athens -ended with a fifth-place result.
Barbara Kendall devotes herself to many activities in the administration of her sport. Since 2005, she has also been a member of the IOC and its Athletes' Commission.
2008- Beijing.
Sarah UlmerOLYMPICS CYCLING GOLD MEDAL
WINNER 1994 Sarah won the silver medal for
the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, and was named Sportswoman of the year.
1998 -first Commonwealth Games gold medal at Kuala Lumpur
2004: Gold in Athens and a world record
March 2006- She won the Wellington World Cup road cycling event .
Jenny Shipley
•1987- election to parliament •During the 1990s -served as Minister of Transport, State Services, Women’s Affairs, Health and Social Welfare, and the state owned enterprises Radio New Zealand and Accident Compensation Corporation. •1997 -became the first woman prime minister of New Zealand. (National)
Elizabeth McComb
worked for temperanceelected to the Christchurch City
Council, the North Canterbury Hospital Board, and the Tramways Board, and chaired the Electricity Committee.
Contested two Parliamentary elections for Labour before, in 1933, on the death of her husband, she was elected member for his former seat of Lyttelton with a large majority.
This success gave her the distinction of being the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
Kate Sheppardwas a remarkable organiserwrote vigorously and clearly, but
always reasonably. Was responsible for writing pamphlets and developing petitions which brought the rights and desires of women to the attention of decision-makers.
1893-battle for universal suffrage was finally won.
Continued to work for women’s progress, helping to establish the National Council of Women and becoming its first president.
To her belongs much of the credit for advancing the rights of New Zealand women.
Dame Malvina Major –Opera
Singer1991 -invested Dame of the British Empire.2008-made a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, (changed in 2009 to Grande Dame of the New Zealand Order of Merit.) 1992 she was named New Zealand Entertainer of the Year. Professor of Voice at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
1978-first woman jockey in New Zealand
went on to ride many winners, and was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990
Linda Jones
Dame Sian Elias•1988 was one of two New Zealand women appointed as Queen’s Counsel - the first from this country to be so recognised.•Took positive action to protect Màori land rights under the Treaty of Waitangi.•1995 Sian Elias was appointed a Judge of the High Court. (Her judgement on a defamation case involving a former prime minister was significant in addressing the balance between the freedom of the press and the privacy of a citizen.)•1999-became New Zealand’s first woman Chief Justice.
Mabel Howard•1942 was the first woman to become national secretary of an all-male trade union. •1943 -she was elected to Parliament•1947- became the first woman cabinet minister as Minister of Health and Child Welfare, responsibilities she retained in the 1957 Labour Government.
Helen Clark1981 Helen Clark entered
parliament, where she developed a keen interest in foreign affairs and chaired the Disarmament and Arms Control select committee.
1986 -she was awarded the annual Peace Prize of the Danish Peace Foundation for her work in promoting international peace and disarmament
first New Zealand woman to be appointed to the Privy Council
1999 she became the first woman elected as prime minister.
Sonja Davies1978 she became the first
woman executive member of the Federation of Labour, and its vice-president in 1983
1987 -entered parliament and for six demanding years served on select committees related to foreign affairs, defence, and disarmament.
Freda du Faur
1913-First woman to climb Aoraki/Mt Cook
Margaret Wilson•1987 –1989 Chief Political Adviser and Head of the Prime Minister’s Office; •1985 – 1989 Director of the Reserve Bank; •1987 – 1989 Law Commissioner; •1987 – 1992 chair of the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women•She has also been a member of the Judicial Working Group on Gender Equality, and convened the Government Working Party on Equal Pay and Equal Opportunities.•2005- 2008 Speaker of the House. (Labour Party)
Pam Corkery
Marilyn Waring 1975 -youngest member in the N
Z Parliament, aged 22. Remained in the House of Representatives until 1984
Withdrew support from her party (National)over the issue of a nuclear-free New Zealand, precipitating a snap election in 1984
Only the 15th woman elected as an M P in New Zealand.
a New Zealand feminist , an activist for "female human rights"
Radio talkback personality ,journalist and broadcaster.The most repeated labels used to describe her are fiery, feisty, funny and fearless.
