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STANDING IN THE SUNSHINE PART 1. POWER

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Year
1993
Reference
F21173
Media type
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Year
1993
Reference
F21173
Media type
Moving image
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Series
STANDING IN THE SUNSHINE
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
1:30:43
Production company
Isambard Productions Limited
Credits
Director: Melanie Read
Narrator: Carol Archie
Editor: John Gilbert
Writer: Jan Preston
Performed: Jan Preston
Sound Engineer: R U Rakena
Archival Research: Julie Benjamin
Camera: Peter Janes
Camera: Jacqui Ririnui
Camera: Simon Raby
Executive Producer: Sandra Coney
Executive Producer: Liz Greenslade
Executive Producer: Tom Parkinson
Associate Producer: Hineani Melbourne
Producer: Malcolm Hall

Several well known women politicians and Maori women, leaders in their field, speak of the struggles women have had in order to make it to the top. Women are surveyed in various roles and occupations: politics; business; law; health; and motherhood. The film is interspersed with archival footage and stills.

Episode 1 - Power. The history of female suffrage, protest, political issues and the treatment of women in parliament is explored through interviews with Pakeha and Maori women across the political spectrum:

Helen Clarke, Marilyn Waring, Ruth Richardson, Eva Rickard (Tainui), Meri Mangakahia (Ngāti Te Reinga, Ngāti Manawa, Te Kae Tutae, Te Rarawa), Mira Szaszy (Ngāti Kuri), Whetu Tirikatene Sullivan (Kai Tahu), Hekia Parata (Ngāti Porou), Donna Awatere (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau ā Hinetapora, Te Arawa), Annette Sykes (Te Arawa), Lianne Dalziel, Jenny Shipley, Esme Tombleson, Christine Fletcher, Margaret Wilson, Fran Wilde, Vicki Buck.