NZFA SCREENING. WORKING WOMEN’S SEMINAR. 1 MAY 2010

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Screening Notes from a Film Archive presentation at the Working Women’s Seminar held at St John’s Hall Willis Street on May 1, 2010

WORKING WOMEN’S SEMINAR 1 MAY 2010

Weekly Review 138 (extract)
National Film Unit 1944. Duration 1:05
WOMEN TRUCK DRIVERS : While the men are at war, women load mail bags onto trucks and empty mail boxes." Women drivers were once a back seat joke, these women know their job.... but they're women still when it comes to knocking back a cup of chatter water." Good lord.

Weekly Review 115 (extract)
National Film Unit 1943. Duration 0:48
At the Auckland Supreme Court, New Zealand’s first woman juror Miss E.R.Kingsman talks about the possibility that one day there will be a woman judge! Shock horror! Never!

Efforts to achieve full participation by women in the judicial process in New Zealand were much longer and difficult than one might expect. In contrast to the UK, which included female jury service in the ‘Sex Disqualification Removal Act of 1919’, in New Zealand it was a much more gradual process. It took until 1942 before ‘Women’s Juries Act’ allowed women to volunteer to be registered for duty. The 1962 ‘Juries Amendment Act’, which required women to serve on juries in almost the same capacity as men (And incidentally, it also required Maori to serve in the same capacity as Pakeha) however, this act wasn’t strictly compulsory service as it allowed Women the option to opt out on the basis of gender. This option was removed in 1976.

Weekly Review 248 (extract)
National Film Unit 1946. Duration 0:38
LEARNING MOTHERCRAFT: Girls learn to wash babies in a school classroom. "Some give up the idea of a career in favour of marriage and home. Intermediate schools at the time (and for a considerable time afterwards) had model flats for the acquisition of proficient domestic skills. Many secondary schools around New Zealand only closed their’s in the 80s. Fact.

Weekly Review 335 (extract)
National Film Unit 1948. Duration 1:28
SPEED ... CHAMPION TYPIST ....Mrs Ivy Wyse of Hataitai, Wellington, won the 1st National Typewriting Speed Championship competing against 130 others, and she does show impressive speed as she demonstrates her skill. An early version of a woman's C.V. would often highlight the words per minute!

MUM ROLLETTE (1)
Mum Rollette: Secretary
Charles Haines 196- Duration 1:07
“Secretary to General Manager. Must be efficient, responsible, attractive and feminine…” so goes the job description. And a whopping salary to boot? No.

JERGENS LOTION (1)
Jergens Lotion
[196- ] Duration 0:22
One could say blunt symbolism here.

JERGENS LOTION (2)
Jergens Lotion
[196- ] Duration 0:22
Even blunter! The point is the hand being replaced in both Jergens ads is the female one. The suggestion being?

GLADE
Glade Air Freshener
[196- ] Duration 0:29
Feminism 1960s style, at least for the advertising industry. Adding some cowboy imagery to the domestic role expectation.

Standing in the Sunshine (extracts) ONLY ON LONGER VERSION
Isambard Productions 1993. Duration 4:00
Varied views of the pay equity question from the factory floor and then some historical background and commentary with Margaret Long.
Eva Rickard confronts the issue of speaking rights for women on marae.

WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN NZ
Our Voice and Our Vision. Women’s Liberation in New Zealand (extract)
TVNZ 1985. Duration 3:37
Sue Kedgely and Ngahuia Volkerling reflect on the early days of women’s liberation in NZ. Connie Purdue, who later changed her views of womens’ role and the workforce, is shown preaching the gospel of gender pay equality in the 70s.

Eyewitness News 01/10/1984 (extract)
TVNZ 1984. Duration 3:16
Look at the treatment of women in advertising. Analysis such as this hasn’t stopped Woman’s Weekly sales, but the ‘stupid women’ syndrome seems to have diminished in gender representations on the box.

Rising To The Challenge (extract)
ECNZ [199- ] Duration 1:51
Part of a raft of film and TV production that just happened to occur around the centenary of NZ women's suffrage. It delivers a few surprising facts along the way... NZ's first female bobbies didn't appear officially on the beat till 1951, and we had to wait till 1981 for our first woman fire-fighter.

FACTS & FIGURES 2004
A weekly current affairs programme introduced by Neil Billington. Tonight the topic is equity between the sexes in pay and employment. Women in New Zealand earn on average 20 percent less than men, despite the equal pay act of 1972 which was designed to bridge the gap. Now recommendations are going to government aimed at evening out the score, but in a different way; by paying women the same as men for jobs of comparable worth. The architect of those recommendations is former Labour Party president Margaret Wilson. Dugald Maudsley looks at the proposals: how they work, and how some women believe they are losing out.

Chris Turton and Teresa O’Connor perform various skits and the Wellington Trade Unions Women’s Choir perform songs.

Interviewees: Diana Crossan, State Services Commission; Ethne Walters, Bank Officers Union; John Belgrave, Bankers Association; Rae Julian, Human Rights Commissioner; David Munro, Northern Distribution Workers Union; Barbara Burton, Employers Federation; Martha Coleman, Clerical Workers Union; Yvonne Oldfield, Northern Hotel and Hospital Workers Union; Roger Dunn, Price Waterhouse; Linda Christison, Debtor’s Clerk, Oamaru Mail; Phil Rhodes, Printer, Southland Times; Barbara Burton, Employers Federation; Penelope Brook, Business Round Table; Geoffrey Palmer, Minister of Justice; Margaret Shields, Minister of Women’s Affairs.

Neil Billington interviews Margaret Wilson, Author, ‘Towards Employment Equity’ in the studio.

TOYOTA STARLET
Toyota Starlet
Silver Screen 1983. Duration 1:01
Wait for the gear stick to move before you laugh. How direct a correlation do you need between a women’s specifications and a car’s. Tom Jones is happy with it it would seem.

LOVE HERTZ
Hertz Rental Cars: Love Hertz
Colenso 198- Duration 1:01
What is it they’re selling here? The lead model’s face and form was resplendent at airports all over the South Pacific.

MUM ROLLETTE (2)
Mum Deodorant: I can't get by without my Mum
[197- ] Duration 0:32
Poor quality master material but an essential piece of advertising history.