Ethel Benjamin (1875–1943) was the first woman to become a lawyer in New Zealand. In 1893 she enrolled for an LLB degree at the University of Otago, the first university in Australasia to permit women to take a law degree. She graduated in 1897 and on 10 May was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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Women and the vote
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29 May 1947
Mabel Howard becomes first female Cabinet minister
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10 May 1897
NZ's first woman barrister and solicitor appointed
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28 November 1893
Women vote in first general election
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30 October 1865
Native Land Court created
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26 October 1942
Women Jurors Act allows women to sit on juries
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28 July 1893
Women's suffrage petition presented
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14 August 1891
Women's vote petitions presented to Parliament
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29 November 1893
First woman mayor in British Empire elected
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18 February 1957
New Zealand's last hanging
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13 September 1933
NZ's first woman MP elected
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19 September 1893
Women's suffrage day
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Mabel Howard
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Frederick Chapman
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John Salmond
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William Richmond
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Helen Clark
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Jenny Shipley
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John Hall
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Ada Wells
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Elizabeth Yates
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Anna Stout
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Meri Mangakāhia
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Elizabeth McCombs
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Parliament's people
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Women and the vote
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