:Women in Oceania

Women in New Zealand are the women who live in or are from the multi-cultural society of New Zealand. The first female settlers in New Zealand were not from Europe. They were from the Māori people.

The person credited to be the first white-skinned European woman to settle in New Zealand was Charlotte Badger (she later had a daughter known as Catherine).[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/frontier-of-chaos/charlotte-badger The first woman settler? - go-betweens] The first known Australian settlers arrived on the Cocos islands in 1826.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wgYAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists], Vol. 42, No.4, Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., April 1986, page 21 (56 pages), {{ISSN|0096-3402}}

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In Timor-Leste, due to traditional roles, women are unable to inherit or own property[http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/etimor/timormain.htm Women's Situation], East Timor and face the cultural notion that women normally belong at the home.Crook, Matt. [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47796 Women Learn the Political Ropes], Rights-East Timor The role of Kiribati women is described in the publication Kiribati, A Situation Analysis of Children, Women and Youth (2005) as "largely defined by her age and marital status". Prestige is inherent to the married Kiribati woman, but she is considerably under the authority of her husband.{{cite book|url=http://www.unicef.org/pacificislands/Kiribati_Sitan.pdf|title="1.12 The roles of women", Kiribati, A Situation Analysis of Children, Women and Youth|publisher=Government of Kiribati, with the assistance of UNICEF|year=2005|page=20}}

Historically, there was a strong "gendered division of labor" between women and men of Palau.{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Palau.html|title=Palau|last=Nero|first=Karen L.|access-date=6 October 2013}}

Tongan society who traditionally have a "high position in Tongan society" due to the country's partly matriarchal foundation but "can't own land", "subservient" to husbands in terms of "domestic affairs" and "by custom and law, must dress modestly, usually in Mother Hubbard-style dresses hemmed well below the knee".{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-11-tr-39675-story.html|title=In Tonga, Women Cloak Their Power Under Mother Hubbard Dresses|last=Spano|first=Susan|work=Los Angeles Times|date=11 June 2000 |access-date=13 October 2013}}

Women participate in the traditional music of Tuvalu which consists of a number of dances, including the fatele and the fakanau.{{cite book|title=The Real Music of Paradise|publisher=Rough Guides, Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.)|isbn=1-85828-636-0|page=221|last1=Linkels|first1=Ad}}

One of the organizations that promote empowerment and foster gender equality for the women of Timor-Leste is the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

At present, the women of Indonesia are also venturing actively into the realm of national development, and working as active members of organizations that focus and act on women's issues and concerns.{{cite web|url=http://www.acicis.murdoch.edu.au/hi/women.html|title=Career Women in Indonesia: Obstacles Faced, and Prospects for Change|last=Ingham|first=Xylia|year=2005|publisher=Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies|access-date=6 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/abdul-cn.htm|title=Redefining the role of women in Indonesia|last=Ahmad|first=Abdul Razak|date=29 December 1998|publisher=Third World Network|work=New Straits Times|access-date=6 May 2011}}

The women of New Zealand have the same level of equality with men, and are conferred the same level of respect as well.[https://www.boppoly.ac.nz/go/international/new-zealand-customs-culture New Zealand Customs & Culture]

In relation to the labor force, based on data in 2006, Vanuatuan female workers comprised 49.6% of the workforce of Vanuatu.{{cite web|url=http://unwomenpacific.org/pages.cfm/strategic-plan/vanuatu-1.html|title=Vanuatu|publisher=UN Women|access-date=15 October 2013}} At present, women in Guam - together with Guamanian men - participate in jobs that belong to the wage economy category; but there are also women - among men - who work in the agricultural sector.{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Guam.html|title=Guam|last=Hattori|first=Anne Perez|work=Countries and Their Cultures|access-date=6 October 2013}}

In March 2011, International Women's Day was celebrated on Christmas Island for the honor of its female residents. The event was held in order to convey the theme of "what it means to be a woman living on Christmas Island".[http://www.unifem.org.au/iwd/Get%20Involved/grants Christmas Island Celebrations - 100 women of Christmas Island for 100 years of International Women's Day], unifem.org

Niuean women have "some rights" in relation to land tenure and inheritance of real property, but such rights are not "as strong" as those that belong to the men of Niue.{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/Ma-Ni/Niue.html|title=Niue|last=Barker|first=Judith C.|publisher=Advameg, Inc.|access-date=15 October 2013}}

Modern-day Fijian women have attained better access to education in recent years.{{cite web|url=http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?ref=archive&id=58379|title=Roles women play|publisher=The Fiji Times ONLINE|access-date=14 October 2013}}

Tuvaluan women have access to secondary education at Motufoua Secondary School on Vaitupu{{cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/4492759/Motufoua-Secondary-School|title=Motufoua Secondary School|access-date=20 November 2012}} and Fetuvalu Secondary School, a day school operated by the Church of Tuvalu, on Funafuti.{{cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/10435819/Fetuvalu-High-School|title=Fetuvalu High School (Funafuti)|access-date=20 November 2012}}

In the Solomon Islands female life expectancy at birth was at 66.7 years as compared to male life expectancy at birth at 64.9 in 2007.[http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_SLB.html Human Development Report 2009 – Solomon Islands]. Hdrstats.undp.org. Retrieved 24 September 2010. 1990–1995 fertility rate was at 5.5 births per woman.

Rape cases and sexual slavery were allegedly committed by East Timorese pro-integration militias during the September 1999 crisis in East Timor (Timor-Leste).

• Women in Australia
• Women and government in Australia
• Women in Fiji
• Women in Indonesia
• Women in Kiribati
• Women in the Marshall Islands
• Women in the Federated States of Micronesia

• Women in New Zealand
• Women's suffrage in New Zealand
• Women in Palau

• Women in Christmas Island
• Women in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

• Women in the Cook Islands
• Women in Niue

• Women in Guam
• Women in Hawaii

• Indigenous peoples of Oceania

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