Zealandia

Women in the House (1x8)

Fecha de emisión: Oct 07, 2018

125 years after New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote, VICE investigates what it’s like to be a female politician in 2018. Embedding with women from across the political spectrum—Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, National’s deputy leader Paula Bennett, Labour MP Louisa Wall, and former prime minister Helen Clark—we learn what women in politics face that men don’t, and, with New Zealand’s Parliament the most gender-equal it’s ever been, how the female experience of politics has changed over the past 30 years. We find out why, in a country with some of the worst domestic violence statistics in the developed world, a critical mass of women is essential to get issues that disproportionately affect women addressed—and why that’s good for everyone.