Historian Dr Jock Phillips has spent a career uncovering and documenting Aotearoa New Zealand's past, and is the author of 15 books.
On this day in 1893 New Zealand women won the right to vote in elections.
Jock looks back on the tough path they had to get there.
Photo of Women's Suffrage tile mural outside the Auckland Art Gallery, taken in February 2011. Photo: AFP / Richard Cummins