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The New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes was founded in 1921 and was previously known as The Dominion Federation of Women's Institutes (from 1932), The Dominion Federation of Country Women's Institutes (from 1952) and the New Zealand Federation of Country Women's Institutes (from 1982) before acquiring its current name in 2004.
The Canterbury Women's Institute was a privately funded think tank based in Christchurch, New Zealand, which existed from November 1892 until November 1921. Its primary scope involved the study of and advocacy for women's rights. Originally non-partisan, the Institute became more left-leaning and supportive of specific political parties. [1]
Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer OBE (16 November 1872 – 23 October 1955) was a notable New Zealand school principal, orchardist and community leader. She was born in Napier, New Zealand, in 1872. [1] Spencer founded the New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes in 1921, being inspired to do so after attending a craft exhibition in London in ...
Armitage continued her community work, founding a local branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes. She also became a leading campaigner for the Plunket Society in rural Canterbury, an organisation which had been founded by family friend Truby King , and was Temuka branch president from 1914 to 1928, as well as being a national ...
The National Council of Women of New Zealand (Māori: Te Kaunihera Wahine o Aotearoa) was established in 1896, three years after women in New Zealand won the right to the vote, as an umbrella organisation uniting a number of different women's societies that existed in New Zealand at that time.
Feminism in New Zealand is a series of actions and a philosophy to advance rights for women in New Zealand. This can be seen to have taken place through parliament and legislation, and also by actions and role modelling by significant women and groups of people throughout New Zealand's history.
an avenue of lime trees in the grounds of Denman College (the National Federation Of Women's Institutes' short-stay residential college), Oxfordshire, paid for by donations by WI members, a memorial picnic shelter in the International Peace Gardens near the Canada–US border, erected by the Manitoba Women's Institutes.
Women's Institutes (WI), 6,500 local organisations, founded 1915; Women's Labour League, founded 1906, promoting political representation; Women's Liberal Federation, Liberal Party; Women's Local Government Society, founded 1888; Women's Social and Political Union (1903–1917), a major suffrage organization in the United Kingdom