TrailblazersREPLAY: PM Jacinda Ardern joins NZH for our Suffrage 125 broadcastPM Jacinda Ardern joins the New Zealand Herald editorial team as the guest editor of the 125th Suffrage edition. Video / Chris TarpeyWatch19 Sep 02:50 AM
TrailblazersTRAILBLAZERS: Beatrice TinsleyBeatrice Tinsley was a world-renowned astrophysicist and trailblazer for women in science.Watch04 Sep 05:20 AM
TrailblazersTRAILBLAZERS: Dame Ngaio MarshDame Ngaio Marsh was a Queen of Crime and best-selling novelist.Watch04 Sep 05:19 AM
TrailblazersTRAILBLAZERS: Nancy WakeNancy Wake was a WWII hero and the Gestapo's most wanted person. Watch04 Sep 05:17 AM
TrailblazersTRAILBLAZERS: Helen ThayerHelen Thayer is a world record-setting adventurer and the first woman to walk solo to the magnetic North Pole. Watch04 Sep 05:13 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Elspeth KennedyThe first woman elected to the NZ Stock Exchange16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Mira SzászyPioneer for Māori women's rights and the first Māori female university graduate16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Joan WithersTrailblazing business leader and professional chairwoman16 Sep 06:41 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Wendy PyeThe first woman inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame16 Sep 06:41 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Winifred Boys-SmithNew Zealand's first female university professor16 Sep 06:35 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Paddy WalkerPioneering Pasifika leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee16 Sep 06:34 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Marie ClayFounder of global literacy programme Reading Recovery16 Sep 06:08 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Theresa GattungThe first female CEO of a major public company in New Zealand16 Sep 06:08 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Margaret SparrowTrailblazing doctor and advocate for legal abortions in New Zealand16 Sep 10:59 PM
TrailblazersBeatrice Tinsley: The Kiwi boffin who has been compared to EinsteinWorld-renowned astrophysicist and trailblazer for women in science.16 Sep 10:59 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Edith FarkasPioneering meteorologist who helped discover the hole in the ozone layer16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Ingrid VisserWorld-leading expert in Orca whales and animal welfare advocate16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Rina MooreThe first Māori woman to become a registered doctor16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Rosemary AskinFirst woman to undertake an Antarctic research programme16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Kathleen CurtisPioneering scientist and the first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Pamela YoungPioneering researcher and one of the first women to set foot on the South Pole16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Margaret BrimbleGround-breaking chemist and champion of women in science16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Joan WiffenHistory-making palaeontologist, who discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Georgina BeyerThe world's first transgender mayor and member of Parliament16 Sep 10:57 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Helen ClarkNew Zealand's first elected female Prime Minister16 Sep 10:57 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Mabel HowardNew Zealand's first female trade union leader and first female cabinet minister16 Sep 10:56 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Whetu Tirikatene-SullivanTrailblazing politician and working mother16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Ethel BenjaminThe first woman to study law in Australasia and the New Zealand's first female lawyer16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Margaret WilsonNew Zealand's first female Speaker of Parliament16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Elizabeth YatesThe first female mayor in the British Commonwealth16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Ida MalosiThe first female Pasifika judge and champion of Pasifika women in law16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Georgina Te HeuheuFirst Māori woman to gain a law degree and be admitted to High Court16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Catherine TizardAuckland's first female mayor and New Zealand's first female Governor-General16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Augusta WallaceNew Zealand's first female District Court judge16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Winnie LabanThe first Pasifika woman to be elected to New Zealand Parliament16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Te ĀtairangikaahuThe first Māori Queen and champion of Māori language and culture16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Iriaka RatanaThe first Māori woman to be elected to New Zealand Parliament16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Meri Te Tai MangakāhiaThe first wahine to address the Kotahitanga Parliament13 Sep 01:19 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Jacinda ArdernThe youngest female head of state in the world and trailblazer for working mums13 Sep 01:18 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Silvia CartwrightThe first woman to become a High Court judge in New Zealand04 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersNancy Wake: Super spy who killed Nazis with her bare handsWorld War II hero and the Allies' most decorated servicewoman06 Oct 10:12 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Anne BarryThe first female firefighter in the British Commonwealth16 Sep 11:01 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Lady Victoria PlunketPioneering child welfare advocate and namesake of the Plunket Society16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Rebecca KitteridgeThe first female director of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Rangimarie Naida GlavishPioneering champion of te reo Māori16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Kitty KainCommander of the New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersHelen Thayer: First woman to walk solo to the magnetic North PoleWorld record-setting adventurer and top sportswoman.25 Sep 02:39 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Ruia MorrisonPioneering tennis champion and trailblazer for Māori in sport16 Sep 11:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Annelise CobergerThe first person from the southern hemisphere to medal at the Winter Olympics16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Naomi JamesThe first woman to sail solo around the world16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Valerie AdamsNew Zealand's most successful female athletics champion16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Raelene CastlePioneering sports administrator and the first female boss of an NRL club16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Farah PalmerWorld Cup-winning rugby captain and the first woman elected to the New Zealand Rugby board16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Barbara KendallThe only New Zealand woman to compete in five Olympic Games16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Lydia KoThe youngest person ever to become a golf world number one16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Yvette Corlett (nee Williams)New Zealand's first female Olympic medalist13 Sep 01:24 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Wanda MessamFoster mother who helped change the lives of more than 300 children16 Sep 11:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Te Puea HērangiCentral figure in establishing the Kingitanga movement16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Miriam DellNew Zealand's first president of the International Council of Women16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Kristine BartlettTrailblazing campaigner who launched a five-year court battle for equal pay16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Falema'i LesāPioneering protester who fought for Samoans' right to New Zealand citizenship16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Whina CooperCelebrated Māori leader and advocate for Māori rights and welfare16 Sep 05:50 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Kate SheppardNew Zealand's first female newspaper editor and pioneering suffragette13 Sep 01:30 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Mary CarpenterThe first person to sign the suffrage petition of 189313 Sep 12:41 AM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Merata MitaTrailblazing filmmaker and first Māori woman to direct a feature film19 Sep 12:56 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Julia YatesFashion pioneer and the woman who brought ladies trousers to New Zealand17 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Jennie GoodwinThe first female prime-time newsreader in the Commonwealth16 Sep 05:50 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Hinewehi MohiThe first person to perform the national anthem in te reo at an international test match16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Joy CowleyNew Zealand's most prolific author and champion of children's literacy16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Niki CaroDirected New Zealand's highest-grossing film at the international box office16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Elizabeth PulmanNew Zealand's first female professional photographer16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Jools and Linda ToppTrailblazing musicians, entertainers and activists16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Louise Tu'uFirst New Zealander awarded the Royal Court Theatre international residency16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Carmen RupeTrailblazing activist, entertainer and early champion of LGBTQ rights16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Mavis RiversGrammy-nominated jazz singer who performed with Frank Sinatra16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Dame Kiri Te KanawaWorld-renowned opera singer and the first Kiwi to win a Grammy Award16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Lynley DoddAward-winning author and creator of national icon Hairy Maclary16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Selina Tusitala MarshAward-winning poet and champion of Pasifika literature16 Sep 05:00 PM
TrailblazersTrailblazers: Rachel HunterNew Zealand's first supermodel and a champion of natural beauty16 Sep 05:00 PM
