Miriam Dell

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Miriam Dell in 2011

Dame Miriam Dell (born June 14, 1924 in Hamilton ) is a New Zealand suffragette .

Life

The daughter of Gerald Matthews and his wife Ruby, née Crawford, was named Miriam Patricia Matthews . She studied history and botany at the University of Auckland , where she graduated in 1944. In 1946 she married the mollusc researcher Richard Dell and moved with him to Wellington . The couple had four children.

Due to coordination problems with faculties and lecturers, she broke off her planned academic career and concentrated on her activities as a mother, housewife and high school teacher. She taught science. In addition, she was committed to women's rights, first in the church women's organization Association of Anglican Women , then in the National Council of Women of New Zealand , of which she was president from 1970 to 1974. In 1974 she was appointed chairman of the national women's committee - this body was the forerunner of the New Zealand women's ministry established in 1984. Her topics included equal civil rights and duties for women, women's employment, the consideration of women in the appointment of juries and political offices, the legal status in marriage and divorce as well as maternity and care leave. She also sat on the UNESCO body of New Zealand from 1974 to 1985.

In 1975, 1980 and 1985 she represented the New Zealand government as a delegate at the UN conferences on the status of women. She was also President of the International Women's Council (IWC) for two terms from 1979 to 1986 , and had been a board member since 1976. In November 1981 she visited Germany in this capacity.

In 1988, as ICW Honorary President, she was one of the organizers of the 100th anniversary of this organization; In 1993, she chaired the body responsible for organizing the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand.

In 2013, the first biennial Miriam Dell Award was presented, which is intended for the advocates of women in science, math and technology.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Ed .: Elizabeth Sleeman. P. 135 f. ISBN 1-85743-122-7 . Digitized
  2. ↑ Association for Women in Science : own statements on AWIS.org.nz (English)
  3. ↑ Biography in the context of the laudation 1993 (engl.)
  4. ↑ Cordula Koepcke: Women show their colors . Leske Verlag, Opladen 1984. p. 128. Digitized
  5. ↑ Miriam Dell Award (Eng.)
personal data
SURNAME Dell, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthews, Miriam Patricia (maiden name); Dell, Miriam Patricia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton (New Zealand)