Impact of 1991 Policy Initiatives for Girls and Women in Education: Fibre and Fishhooks

This paper examines the policy climate during 1991 for issues involving the education of girls and women. In many ways the year provided a more chilling wind than in previous years. The year has seen policy proposals both encouraging and discouraging for the furthering of women’s education. However, as Wellingtonians are aware, winds are notoriously changeable, and our analysis attempts to incorporate some of the contradictory principles and practices that can be found within current policy proposals...