Kate Sheppard is considered one of the most influential people in New Zealand when it comes to New Zealand being the first country in the world to give women the vote.

1. Votes for
Women
- New Zealand

2. Women have not always had the
vote

3. Women were property - Coverture
• She was • She could not
covered by her go to court in
male relatives her own right
• She could not • She could not
divorce her have custody
husband of her children
• Her property • She could not
did not belong vote
to her
She was dependent upon
men

4. Which Country Gave Women
the vote First?

5. KATE SHEPPARD AND THE
VOTE FOR WOMEN IN NEW
ZEALAND
 Challenge Nowhere in the world was it considered
appropriate for women to vote!
 Challenge Many people, especially men, did not
want to give women the vote.
 Challenge Parliament had to pass a Bill in order for
women to vote and it only had men in it!!
 HOW DID THEY OVERCOME THESE CHALLENGES??

6. FIRST – SOME HISTORY
 FOR A LONG TIME
 NO MAN
 NO WOMAN
 COULD VOTE
 THERE WAS NO SUCH THING!!
BUT PEOPLE’S IDEAS ABOUT HOW
SOCIETY SHOULD WORK BEGAN TO
CHANGE

7. DIVINE ORDER MONARCHY
•HUMANISM
PETRACH •1300’S
•REFORMATION
LUTHER •1520
•ENLIGHTENMENT
ROUSSEAU •1700’S
CHANGE DEMOCRACY

8. MAKE A FLOW DIAGRAM
 SYMBOLS – E.G.
IS A SYMBOL FOR
MONARCHY
 IDEAS
 DEMOCRACY?
 A FLOW DIAGRAM –
 CHANGING POLITICAL IDEAS
 SYMBOL SYMBOL SYMBOL

9. IDEAS CHANGED
MONARCHY
• Some wealthy men got the vote
• Some less wealthy men got the vote.
• All men got the vote
DEMOCRACY
 So women wanted the vote too.
 They started to get involved.

10. WOMEN CARED ABOUT THINGS
TOO
A
C C
A T
R I
E O
SO N
THEY
TAKE

11. ABOLITION MOVEMENT was an
International Movement
WOMEN
BOYCOTED
SIGNED
SLAVE GROWN WROTE RAISED FUNDS
PETITIONS
SUGAR
SPOKE

12. WOMEN CARED ABOUT THINGS TOO.
FOR INSTANCE THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT
 THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT WAS…
 WHAT WOMEN DID…
 In the centre of your page draw a
silhouette of a woman.
 CUT OUT PICTURES AND PASTE THEM
AROUND THE WOMAN.

13. BUT WOMEN ONLY HAD INFLUENCE.
THEY HAD NO POWER TO
CHANGE THINGS
HOW
DID
WOMEN
CHANGE
THAT?

14. IMPORTANT WORDS
1. ABOLITION
2. PETITION
3. SUFFRAGE (FRANCHISE)
4. COVERAGE
5. DEMOCRACY
6. MONARCHY

15. HOW DO WE CONSTRUCT A
BAR GRAPH
 BOTH AXIS ARE DRAWN WITH A RULER
 BOTH AXIS HAVE A LABEL
 THE GRAPH HAS A TITLE
 THE GRAPH HAS A KEY

16. BAR GRAPH CHECKLIST
 Graph is drawn with a ruler with
even gaps between bars.
 Countries on the horizontal (x)
axis
 Years on the vertical (y) axis
 Both axis are labeled.
 Title
Key – Male and Female Suffrage

17. MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE BY YEAR AND COUNTRY
COUNTRY MALE SUFFRAGE FEMALE SUFFRAGE
U.S.A 1870 1920
NEW ZEALAND 1879 1893
NORWAY 1898 1913
U.K. 1914 1928
FRANCE 1848 1944
MEXICO 1917 1953
SWITZERLAND 1848 1971

18. HOW COME NEW ZEALAND WAS
FIRST IN THE WORLD TO ACHIEVE
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE??
 FLOW DIAGRAM
 NEW IDEAS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
 PEOPLE WITH NEW IDEAS MIGRATED TO NEW
ZEALAND
 NEW ZEALAND AS A SELF GOVERNING COLONY –
DID NOT HAVE TO DO THE SAME AS BRITAIN

19. New Zealand

21. KATE SHEPPARD
HAND-OUT – MAKE A POSTER IN YOUR BOOK’S REPRESENTING
HER LIFE. WRITE AT LEAST ONE FACT ABOUT EACH TIME
BORN 1848
EARLY LIFE CHRISTCHURCH
WCTU AFTER 1893
DIED 1934
YOU CAN USE A DIFFERENT SHAPE IF YOU LIKE

22. WHAT INSPIRED HER?
 SHE HEARD MARY LEAVITT FROM THE
AMERICAN WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE
UNION SPEAK ON THE NEED FOR WOMEN TO
HAVE THE VOTE TO EFFECT CHANGE. (1885)
 SHE SAW WHAT COLONIAL LIFE WAS LIKE FOR
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
 SHE RECOGNISED THERE WAS A GREAT
OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE OF THE NEWNESS OF
NEW ZEALAND’S POLITICAL SCENE.

23. w.c.t.u.
Womens Christian Temperance Union
Women felt getting
Alcohol took a the vote would
terrible toll on enable them to
families have some control
Remember women and children had no rights except in
relationship to the adult male relatives they had.

24. THE TEMPERANCE
MOV
EMENT

25. This picture has three parts
 1- A family happily at home together
The family is warm and happy. The man, woman
and children are all provided for.
 2 - The family signing “The Pledge” not to drink.
The family take the pledge not to touch alcohol. This
picture stands between the happy and sad family.
 3 – The family begging the man not to go to the
pub.
The family are outside in the cold and dressed in
rags. The husband has a bottle of alcohol in his
hand.
Alcohol is the difference between the two scenarios.
MESSAGE: Alcohol is bad for family life and
especially for women and children.

26. Her Personal Qualities
 No Sectarian Narrowness
 Well Educated
 Good Judgment
 Excellent Public Speaker
 Tolerance
 Committed
 Charm
 Very Feminine Woman

27. What she did…
 WROTE PAMPHLETS
 WROTE LETTERS TO THE PRESS
 GAVE TALKS
 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH POLITICIANS
 ORGANISED PETITIONS AND OPENED
THEM TO ALL WOMEN
 TRAVELLED THE COUNTRY
 KEPT CONTACT WITH OVERSEAS
MOVEMENT
 Led the push for Women’s Franchise

28. OTHER GROUPS and PEOPLE
INVOLVED
 Women’s Franchise League
 Canterbury Women’s Institute
 Polly Plum (Mary Colclough)
 WCTU of America (Mary Leavitt)
 John Stuart Mill
 Mary Muller
 Dunedin Tailoresses’ Union
 Politicians such as…
 William Fox
 John Hall
 Robert Stout

29. Kate Sheppard’s Ideas
- Kate Sheppard “Ten Reason’s
Why Women Should Vote.”
 1. “Because a democratic
government like that of New
Zealand already admits the great
principle that every adult person,
not convicted of crime, nor
suspected of lunacy, has an
inherent right to a voice in the
construction of laws which all must
obey.”

30. LETS LOOK AT WHAT NUMBER 1
ON KATE’S LIST SAYS
 “Because a democratic government like that
of New Zealand already admits the great
principle that every adult person, not
convicted of crime, nor suspected of lunacy,
has an inherent right to a voice in the
construction of laws which all must obey.
 What does she mean? Table Groups Discuss
 Write a definition for these words:
INHERENT RIGHT – CONSTRUCTION OF
LAWS

31. WHY DID WOMEN WANT
THE VOTE?
2. Because it has not yet been proved that the
intelligence of women is only equal to that of children, nor
that their social status is on a par with that of lunatics or
convicts.
3. Because women are affected by the prosperity of the
Colony, are concerned in the preservation of its liberty and
free institutions, and suffer equally with men from all
national errors and mistakes
4. Because women are less accessible than men to most
of the debasing influences now brought to bear upon
elections, and by doubling the number of electors to be
dealt with, women would make bribery and corruption less
effective, as well as more difficult.

32. WHY DID WOMEN WANT
THE VOTE
5. Because in the quietude of home
women are less liable than men to be
swayed by mere party feeling, and are
inclined to attach great value to
uprightness and rectitude of life in a
candidate.
6. Because the presence of women at
the polling-booth would have a refining
and purifying effect.
7. Because the votes of women would
add weight and power to the more settled
and responsible communities.

33. WHY DID WOMEN WANT
THE VOTE
8. Because women are endowed with a more constant
solicitude for the welfare of the rising generations, thus
giving them a more far-reaching concern for something
beyond the present moment.
9. Because the admitted physical weakness of women
disposes them to exercise more habitual caution, and to
feel a deeper interest in the constant preservation of
peace, law, and order, and especially in the supremacy of
right over might.
10. Because women naturally view each question from a
somewhat different standpoint to men, so that whilst their
interests, aims, and objects would be very generally the
same, they would often see what men had overlooked,
and thus add a new security against any partial or one-
sided legislation.

34. IN DESK GROUPS
 List
the important words for each point.
 Take each point Kate Sheppard made
and summerise it. What did she mean?
• WHAT DO YOU THINK?
• DO YOU THINK HER POINT WAS VALID?
• IS THE POINT TRUE TODAY?
• DO YOU THINK EVERYTHING TURNED OUT THE
WAY SHE WANTED?

35. Women’s suffrage
-A New Zealand Time-line
New Zealand a Self 1843 Mr Alfred Saunders 1884 Married
Governing Colony 1853 and Mr William Fox Women’s
advocate Women’s Property Act
Suffrage
1879 Male 1885 NZ Women’s 1893 petition
1869 Mary Muller wrote
Suffrage Maori Christian 1891 petition 30,000+ signatures
pamphlet advocating
Male suffrage Temperance 10,085 signatures – women get the
Women’s Suffrage
1867 Movement vote
1933 First
1997 First Percentage of
female woman MP’s
woman Prime
1919 Women MP same as
1947 First Minister
allowed to be percentage of
female women in
MP
Cabinet population
Member

36. Make a time-line 1900
Women
1893 get the
vote
 Ruled vertical line
 Even scale- (Decades)
 Short horizontal line for
each event
 Brief descriptions
 An appropriate title
NZ self-
1853 governing
1850 colony

37. WHO OPPOSED VOTES FOR
WOMEN?
 LIQUOR LOBBY
 SOME CONSERVATIVE WOMEN’S GROUP
 RICHARD SEDDON and
 MANY OTHER POLITICIANS
 INDIVIDUAL MEN such as;
 Henry Smith Fish
 Henry Wright

38. WHAT WERE THEIR
IDEAS?
 It would “Unsex” women.
 WOMEN TALKING POLITICS WOULD BE TOO DISRUPTIVE.
 Women had a vote through their husbands.
 Woman’s place was in the home.
 Families would suffer.
 Women voting is against God’s order.
 Women who want the vote are too masculine.
 Women are not physically suited to vote.

39. HAND-OUT
 Cut out the faces.
 In your own words write why each
thought women could not vote.
Underneath Add
 The economy would suffer
 Women did not want the Vote

40. WHAT IS A POLITICAL
CARTOON?
A political cartoon is a mixture of visual
and written evidence.
 Political cartoons are normally drawn to
show the cartoonist’s point of view about
an issue which is seen as important at the
time.
 Cartoonists often use humour or sarcasm
to emphasise their point of view about a
particular issue.

41. Remember this?
How did we go about
deciding what it was about?

42. Interpreting Cartoons
 We decided what the illustration was about? -
Temperance
 We decided what was happening in the
illustration? Husband at home with happy family;
husband going to pub with unhappy family.
 We looked at the way the illustration was set out?
Taking the Pledge was between the other two
pictures.
 The message?
TOPIC - ACTION –
WORDS – LAYOUT -
CHARACTERS

43. Here is an example from the
Christchurch Press

44. LETS PRACTICE ANALYSING A
POLITICAL CARTOON
 handout
 IS THE CARTOONIST PRO- OR ANTI-
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE?
 HOW CAN YOU TELL? -words
 -pictures
 IS IT FUNNY? OR IS IT DEMEANING?
 WHAT DO YOU THINK?

46. ANALYSE THE FOLLOWING CARTOONS BY ANSWERING
THESE QUESTIONS.
 1- What is the Cartoon about?
 2- What characters/types can you identify?
 3- What idea/s does it portray?
 4- What clues lead you to your identification of the
characters/idea(s)?
 5- Which perspective is the cartoon being depicted
from?

47. The household The woman is dressed and
is in chaos. acting like a man and the
But something man is dressed and acting
is wrang. like a woman.
This
cartoon
is
against
votes
for
women
.
Because the
household is
unhappy

48. WHAT IDEA IS THIS CARTOON
REPRESENTING?

49. Heading in your books
How to Write about Cartoons
1 Briefly describe the cartoon.
2 Write a because sentence.
3 Write…The cartoonist is trying to say
that…

50. 1) Write a sentence to
very briefly describe
the cartoon. 2) Write a because
sentence.
This cartoon has two parts Because the
women in the
second picture are
The first part is
not behaving in a
women sewing
very ladylike way –
together.
this cartoon is
against Votes for
Women.
3) Write what the
The second cartoonist is trying to say.
picture The cartoonist
shows is saying that
women giving women
smoking the vote will
and talking “unsex” them
together. or make them
too masculine..

51. WHAT IS THIS CARTOON
Briefly
describe the SAYING?
cartoon. Because the woman is
Write a because washing the man from a
A woman is sentence. bowl labeled Votes for
washing a Women this cartoon is
child. for Votes for Women.
The child Write a
is not sentence
enjoying to say
it. what the
cartoonist
is trying to
say.
The child
has a
moustache. The cartoonist is trying to
say that giving women
the vote will be good
because it will clean-up
politics.

52. Write a
brief Write…The
description cartoonist
of the is trying to
cartoon. say that…
Write a
because
sentence
Female Voters: “Come,Come my boy you have to take this nice
medicine. It will be good for you.”
Young NZ: “I don’t like your medicine, and am feeling alright. But I
guess I have to have it. Maybe it won’t hurt.”

53. WHAT IS THIS CARTOON
SAYING?
“You permit this gentleman to influence your Elections. Surely
you might permit me to have a voice in the matter too?”

54. WHO IS THIS CARTOON
TARGETING AND HOW? The men are;
• Political
Boss.
• White
Slaver.
• Child
Labour
Exploiter.
• Food
Doper.
• Saloon
Keeper.

55. Other activities
 Collage a) colonial life for women
b) life for the modern woman
c) life for women in 19th Century
England.
Expert Groups – 1 Liquor Lobby
2 Conservative Women’s Lobby
3 Pro Women’s Suffrage
4 Politics too rough Lobby
5 WCTU Lobby
Develop a short speech containing each p-o-v to deliver
to the class by a spokes man. Parliamentary Debate

56. Photograph of Pioneer Women
by Ruth Dallas
You can see from their faces
Life was not funny
The streets, when there were streets,
Tugging at axles,
The settlement ramshackle as a stack of cards.
And where there were no streets, and so houses,
Save their own roof of calico and thatch,
The cows coming morning and afternoon
From the end-of-world swamp,
Udders cemented with mud.

57. Photograph of Pioneer Women
by Ruth Dallas
Verse 2
There is nothing to equal pioneering labour
For wrenching a woman out of shape,
Like an old willow, uprooted, thickening.
See their strong arms, their shoulders broadened
By the rhythmical swing of the of the axe, or humped
Under loads they donkeyed on their backs.
Some of them found time to be photographed,
With their bearded husbands, and twelve or thirteen children,
Looking shocked, but relentless,
After first starching the frills on their caps.