A group of women at Waitangi, who weave wahakura, gifted the prime minister three flax bassinets. Photo: RNZ / Shannon Haunui-Thompson
Past Caring? Women, Work & Emotion. It's a new book from three southern women at Otago University - History Professor Barbara Brookes who specialises in gender relations, and has written on that and the history of health and disease. She wrote A History of New Zealand Women which was a NZ Book Awards winner. Dr Jane McCabe is a lecturer in history, and Angela Wanhalla is the third author. Barbara Brookes and Jane McCabe talk about where women in New Zealand are at today.
