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Women make up 51% of the New Zealand population, however, women in New Zealand parliament only make up just over 30% in parliament (2014). For women to be represented in parliament, it means that women need to be seen as a ‘norm’ in government, and therefore all positions of power. This under-representation can be linked to factors such as the environment and the culture of the New Zealand parliament and political parties. It is important to note that women are not a homogenous group; and we have

Women As News Anchors Women in all careers are striving to gain equality in the work force today, and female television news anchors are definitely part of the fight. The road to television news anchoring is a rocky one, where only a few women survive and many fail. Where progress was once thought to have been made, there aren't many females getting ahead in the world of television news. Today, there is a very slow, if any, gain in the numbers of women who succeed. There are many questions

New Zealand Women have had the completely equal rights with men before the rest of the world since 1840. In 1840 was the first organized British immigration started to move to New Zealand. Theoretically, these rights would be a vague rules as long as it not applied so Women’s right in New Zealand was changing until a female Prime Minister was chosen in 1997 which is a milestone of the women’s rights attaining equality. Some females active in politics mainly affected the New Zealand society to formulate

called the New Deal and Second New Deal programs. These programs were

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World analyzes many issues in society during its time that still apply to our world today. One specific issue Huxley touched upon in his novel was the role of women in society. During Huxley’s time women struggled to overcome inequalities in the workforce and prove that they were capable of working just as hard as men; women continue to face the same issues in today’s society although significant improvements have occurred over the years. In the 1920’s and early 1930’s

Flappers and Mothers: New Women in the 1920s Frederick Lewis Allen, in his famous chronicle of the 1920s Only Yesterday, contended that women’s “growing independence” had accelerated a “revolution in manners and morals” in American society (95). The 1920s did bring significant changes to the lives of American women. World War I, industrialization, suffrage, urbanization, and birth control increased women’s economic, political, and sexual freedom. However, with these advances came

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a society is presented in which every aspect of life is tightly controlled and humans are more like lifeless machines. However, in this attempt at a utopian society, glimmers of humanity are shown through several characters in the novel. Though the characters surrounding the central action are male, two very important women are also portrayed. These two woman are used to not only dispute the sexism demonstrated by men, but also in response to the women's rights

INTRODUCTION New Zealand women in the 19th century became part of an international movement to achieve equal rights. Women campaigners, and the men who helped them to achieve their goal, were raising the point of inequalities in marriage, education, paid employment and politics. Most of those who didn’t support in favour for women’s rights, strongly valued the differences between men and woman. A woman’s place was seen a mainly domestic one. As they were seen as the mother and homemaker, the source

for women at any point in the near or distant future. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of Huxley’s novel, he instead created a futuristic world that is hauntingly similar to our own. The only difference being that Hover cars actually do exist. Upon first glance, the story seems liberating, uplifting, and in every sense of the word, futuristic. But as you delve further into the novel you become blinded by the blatant misogyny that holds this dull, unadventurous story together. ‘Brave New World’

1. “New Zealand’s early embrace of women’s voting rights has become a key part of its identity as a world-leading, progressive democracy.” (Atkinson, 2015). When New Zealand first became colony it was widely accepted that women were best suited for domestic tasks and men were fit for public life and politics. Women were kept separate from the world of politics, similar to many European societies at the time (Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2014). Some women began to challenge these narrow-minded