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Celebrating Women's Suffrage w/ Helen Clark: September 14, 2018

Celebrating Women's Suffrage w/ Helen Clark: September 14, 2018

Celebrating Women's Suffrage w/ Helen Clark: September 14, 2018 Celebrating Women's Suffrage w/ Helen Clark: September 14, 2018, 6.68 MB
Friday, September 14, 2018

This week, New Zealand celebrated the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the date when women got the right to vote in our country. But, however much things have improved over those 125 years, they still aren’t perfect yet.

Ahead of the anniversary, Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke with former Prime Minister and UNDP administrator, Helen Clark, about her new book and what it means to be a woman in power - and started by asking her why we still need to commemorate suffrage in 2018.