In their own right
Subtitle: women and higher education in New Zealand before 1945
By: Kay Morris Matthews.
Publisher: NZCER Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781877398360
Subjects: Women -- Education (Higher) -- New Zealand -- History; Professional education of women -- New Zealand -- History; Women college graduates -- Employment -- New Zealand -- History; Women teachers -- New Zealand -- History
Description: This is the story of how higher education has profoundly changed the pattern of women's lives in Ne Zealand over the past 150 years. It is the story of a surprisingly large number of women who managed to achieve an academic education, and of those who, taught by those early graduates, became the next wave of educated women.
Notes: includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index.