Title
Women in Parliament
Document Type
Book Chapter
RIS ID
35917
Abstract
An expatriate woman, Mrs Doris Booth, was among the minority of nominated, non-official members (that is members appointed by, but not to represent, the Territory's Administration) in the first and second Legislative Councils between 1951 and 1957. The first Papua_ New Guinean woman to sit in the legislature was Alice Wedega from Milne Bay, who was a nominated, non-official member of the reconstituted Legislative Council between 1961 and 1963.
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Publication Details
Wolfers, E. P. 2010, 'Women in Parliament', in I. Maddocks & E. P. Wolfers (eds), Living history and evolving democracy, University of Papua New Guinea Press, Papua New Guinea. pp. 310