Margaret Sievwright

Margaret Home Sievwright ( née Richardson ; 19 Maris 1844 - 9 Maris 1905) yar' yar New Zealand ce, mai fafutukar siyasa kuma shugabar al'umma. Ta kasance mai himma musamman a cikin halin ɗabi'a da motsin zaɓe, kuma ta zama shugabar Majalisar Mata ta New Zealand .

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Margaret Home Sievwright a Pencaitland, Gabashin Lothian a 1844 zuwa John Richardson, wani yanki na ƙasa, da Jane Law Home. Ta girma a ciki da kusa da Edinburgh . Ta haɓaka manufofin ɗan adamtaka masu sassaucin ra'ayi. A tsawon rayuwarta ta ci gaba da sha'awar koyo da yunƙurin zamantakewa, tare da mai da hankali musamman kan inganta yanayin mata da yara. Ta shiga koyarwa, tana aiki a " makarantu masu raɗaɗi " a Edinburgh. Ta bar koyarwa kuma ta sami horo a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya a ƙarƙashin tsarin Florence Nightingale. [1] [2] [3] A matsayinta na ma’aikaciyar jinya ta shiga yaƙin Josephine Butler game da Ayyukan Cututtuka masu Yaduwa a Biritaniya da New Zealand. [4] [3]

A cikin 1878, Sievwright ya yi hijira zuwa Dunedin, New Zealand, da farko yana zama tare da surukinta. A Wellington, a cikin Nuwamba 1878, ta auri mai takaba William Sievwright, daga Lerwick, abokin shari'a na Robert Stout   Suna da 'ya'ya mata uku, biyu daga cikinsu sun kasance daga auren William na baya.  Iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Gisborne a cikin 1833. 

’Yar Sievwright, Wilhelmina, ta auri ’ya ɗaya tilo na Kate Sheppard, Douglas Sheppard a 1908. 

## Motsin zaben mata

A Gisborne, Sievwright ya kasance mai aiki a cikin fushi da ƙungiyoyin mata, tare da sha'awar samun 'yancin kai na tattalin arzikin mata a cikin aure. Ta yi rubuce-rubuce da yawa ga mujallolin siyasa na mata kuma ta kasance memba mai ƙwazo a cikin ƙungiyoyin mata daban-daban. Ita ce shugabar reshen Gisborne na Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand, wacce ke da himma wajen ba da shawarwari kan al'amuran mata gabaɗaya kuma ta kasance babban ƙarfi a cikin yunƙurin zaɓen mata.

Sievwright ta halarci taron farko na Majalisar Mata ta New Zealand (NCWNZ) a Christchurch a matsayin wakiliyar Kungiyar Siyasa ta Mata ta Gisborne inda aka zabe ta daya daga cikin mataimakan shugaban kasa hudu.   Sievwright ya rike ofishin shugaban majalisar mata ta New Zealand daga 1901 zuwa 1904. 

Sievwright ya kuma yi yakin neman kwance damara da zaman lafiya,  inganta matsayin zaman lafiya a lokacin yakin Boer . 

Ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa tare da WCTU NZ da NCWNZ, Sievwright yayi aiki tare da Kate Sheppard da Anna Stout . Mijin Sievwright William shima ya goyi bayan aikinta, inda ya buga kariyar kariyar mata da zaɓen mata. 

A zaman NCWNZ a 1902, gabatar da takardarta 'Cuwar nakasassu na al'umma da siyasa na mata' Sievwright ya ce: "Akan yi tambaya sau da yawa 'Menene mata suke so?' Muna son maza su fice daga hasken rana, shi ke nan”. 

## Tunawa
Sievwright ya kamu da rashin lafiya a 1905, kuma ya mutu 9 Maris 1905 a Gisborne. An binne ta a wani fili na iyali a makabartar Makaraka. 

Abokan aikin Sievwright sun kafa wani wurin shan ruwa a Gisborne, akan titin Peel kusa da mahadar titin Gladstone. Daga baya an sake komawa 7 Fitzherbert Street. Rubutun yana karanta: Ko da yaushe aboki ga maras abota, mai rangwame ga duk abin da yake mai jinƙai, mai tausayi da adalci.