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Editorial: Celebrating women’s achievements amid ongoing struggle for rights
OPINION: Our editorial on women's rights as we mark the 130th anniversary of suffrage.
Suffrage Day being celebrated at Whanganui Regional Museum
"That means telling women’s stories as much as the usually more well-known men’s stories."
Moana Maniapoto: Radio stations called my Māori songs 'foreign language'
The songwriting 'artivist' says her mission was to shove Māori into NZers' faces.
The secret of leadership? 'It's about serving' says Conversations director
E-Tangata writer/director Simone Kaho reflects on what she learned from making the series.
Naida Glavish: The telephone operator who risked being fired for greeting callers with 'Kia ora'
An interview with the staunch matriarch who's been leading change since the 1980s.
Shameful history of NZ in Samoa a revelation
A proud legacy from the women's Mau movement in Sāmoa revealed.
Conversations: Bitter history of sewage spills, land grabs and broken graves
The young activist who's leading the fight against the Fletcher development at Ihumātao.
Conversations: 'Why NZ Pacific kids don't understand their parents'
She had to leave her home and family to find her identity.
Tapu Misa: Time to rethink 'brown issues' in the media
Tapu Misa says we need to hear more from inspirational Maori and Pacific women.
Pasifika poet: Girls 'just wanted to touch her hair'
When Selina Tusitala Marsh goes to schools young Pasifika girls come up for bear hugs.
Our New Zealander of the year is...
All year, we have watched as Kiwi women have fought for their rights. Our winner is....
Ardern, Shipley and Clark and how we made that photo
This summer we look back at the best stories of the year. This is from September.
Local Focus: Māori women's suffrage day celebrated
20 December was the anniversary for Māori women to vote. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Editorial: Newly enfranchised, women voted in droves
EDITORIAL: It is 125 years on Wednesday since women used their right to vote.
Re-enactment of women's historic vote dash
Next Wednesday is the 125th of women's first voting to choose New Zealand MPs.
Your say: Those who came before Kate Sheppard
Readers have their say on women's suffrage; ratepayers' burden; and pokie problems
Comment: Let's not forget another September anniversary
We were world leaders on social security in 1938. We can be so again, argues Mike O'Brien
The power of three: How we made THAT photo
Behind the scenes at a history making photo operation.
The realities of life in a corset
Leimomi Oakes will be using historical costumes to explore women's lives 100 years ago.
Soper: Dame Fran Wilde is a true trailblazer
COMMENT: There's one woman who missed out on the adulation yesterday.
Female MPs mark 125 years of suffrage
Parliament marks New Zealand's anniversary of women's suffrage.
Wikipedia focuses world's attention on Kate Sheppard
Suffragette Kate Sheppard featured on Wikipedia's home page today.
REPLAY: PM Jacinda Ardern joins NZH for our Suffrage 125 broadcast
PM Jacinda Ardern joins the New Zealand Herald editorial team as the guest editor of the 125th Suffrage edition. Video / Chris Tarpey
Great-great-granddaughter of suffrage
Madeleine, 16, wants to follow in her footsteps. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Women of Parliament: Kicking in the door of old boys' club
Marilyn Waring, Ruth Richardson, Dame Annette King and Dame Tariana Turia share a story.
Suffrage 125: The 'world of men' no longer
The political campaign for women's suffrage was marked by double dealing and subterfuge
Suffrage 125: Cartoons celebrate long fight for rights
It's been 125 years since women won the right to vote in this country.