Country women lagging
PA Wellington Country women are about 20 years behind women in cities when it comes to involvement in local politics, according to an Internal Affairs Department analysis of election statistics.’ The proportion of women members of councils in counties and districts after the 1980 local-body elections
reached the level gained by women in cities and boroughs in the mid-19605, the analysis said. The contrast between rural and urban areas was striking, it said. In the 1980 local-body elections more women stood, and more were elected, than ever before. There were 946 women candidates, 13 per
cent of the total, and 613 were successful, 12 per cent of the total elected.
In 1959 there 'were 50 women on city and borough councils. There were now 266.
Twenty-three years ago county councils had only four women members. District and county councils now had 66 women members.
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Press, 1 March 1982, Page 7
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147Country women lagging Press, 1 March 1982, Page 7
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