‘‘The thing that I really love about our team is the culture they’ve created for us.’’She was hoping to head into teaching or coaching in the future. But despite being named the first Maori law professor in New Zealand, the 46-year-old Purakaunui resident never had plans to enter the legal sphere. ‘‘Women need to be kind to themselves, and to other women as well.’’Dunedin entrepreneur Heidi Renata. It became the first self-governing country in the world to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. In most other democracies, women did not win the right to vote until after World War 1.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 17, 2021 16:30 UTC