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Helen Clark is elected PM

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Answer the questions below.

1) What does your 'to-scale timeline' tell you about the changes

over time to women's rights in government?

2) Did you notice anything interesting in your timeline?

3) If you were to write a summary description for your timeline,

what would you say?

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Your timeline needs to have;

1) A Key e.g. one square = 1 year

2) A Title

3) Dates labelled on the left side of the vertical line

4) Neat arrows connecting the date to the piece of information

You will need to think about...

Planning how you will plot your dates and points before you start

What the start date and end date of your timeline will be

How many years each square on the grid paper is worth

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32% of Members of Parliament are female

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Kate Sheppard is printed onto the NZ $10 Note

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13% of Members of Parliament are female

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First female MP is elected to Parliament in NZ. She was Labour Party’s Elizabeth McCombs.

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Women are able to stand for Parliament (as MPs)

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A series of three massive petitions was organised by the WCTU, calling on Parliament to grant the vote to women

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New Zealand WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) is established in New Zealand. The leader is suffragette Kate Sheppard. The member of this group campaigned for women's right to vote in NZ.

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Electoral Act made law granting women the right to vote in New Zealand, the first country in the world.