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Category Archives: Activism > Social Reform

Jessie Ackermann

Jessie Ackermann was an American advocate of temperance and women’s rights, who as an international missionary for the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spent a number of years in Australia as an organiser and social reformer. She wrote the first book-length study of Australian women.

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Dr Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.

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Elizabeth Taylor

As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.

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Mabel Wilson

New Zealand domestic worker and community leader

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Maria Rye

Social reformer and a promoter of emigration from England, especially of young women living in Liverpool workhouses, to the colonies of the British Empire, especially Canada.

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Patricia Bartlett

Patricia Bartlett became a household name in 1970s New Zealand when she stood against the tide of social change which promoted more relaxed attitudes to sexuality.

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Florence Keller

A few years before her retirement in her mid 90s, Florence Keller was acclaimed the oldest practising surgeon in the world.

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Ellen Greenwood

Ellen Greenwood made an important contribution to organising charitable aid in a way which delivered effective help to women often ignored or rejected by society in New Zealand.

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Elsie Dohrmann

New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner

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Emily Hill

New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist

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