Making her story
There are two things you know for sure if you’re born a woman. First, that the world isn’t tilted in your favour. Second, that if you want to get anywhere, you generally have to work harder and faster than those with a Y chromosome.
Margaret Wilson – former Labour MP, Attorney-General and University of Waikato professor – received the hard work message early on.
“I’ve always been driven,” says Margaret from her Hamilton home. “And achieving equality is what drove me. It seemed to me that women were treated differently for no good reason, but I realised equality was absolutely fundamental if we were going to change anything.”
It’s an issue the 74-year-old writes about in her new book Activism, Feminism, Politics and, stitching together memories from her 50 years in public service as a unionist, lawyer, politician and lecturer.
