TV series Womenpower covers domestic violence and the Family Court

TV series 'Womenpower' episodes covering domestic violence, and women's experiences in the Family Court, are now available online (links below under episodes 5 and 8).

Womenpower is screening on Wednesday at 7.30 on free-to-air Face TV (also online), or Sky Channel 83. Presented by Catriona MacLennan, the series investigates a range of issues affecting women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previous episodes are available to view online: the links are being added to this page in the days after they are aired, and have been added to the previous story listing the first five episodes.

Episode 5 (Wednesday 30 October)
*Content warning: graphic description of a domestic violence murder*

• Domestic violence
  Interviews: Ruth Herbert and Jessica Trask
• How men use violence to control women
  Interview: Dr Peter J Adams

Episode 6 (Wednesday 6 November)

• Reproductive rights: abortion; Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977; Pro-choice Highway road show; Fighting to Choose: The Abortion Rights Struggle in New Zealand
  Interviews: Alison McCulloch and Nicola Elisabeth
• Women's sport: ignored and underfunded
  Interview: Louisa Wall

Episode 7 (Wednesday 13 November)

• Women and poverty
  Interviews: Women from the Living Wage campaign
• Gender pay gap and pay equity
  

Episode 8 (Wednesday 20 November)

• Treatment of women in the Family Court
  Interview: Vivienne Elizabeth
• Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines
  Interviews: Auckland University law students who parodied 'Blurred Lines'

Episode 9 (Wednesday 27 November)

• Auckland Women Lawyers research: position of women in law; why are they so few female partners in large law firms?
  Interview: Angela Hansen and Dr Judith Pringle
• Position of women on Boards - why so little progress?
  Interview: Gayatra Jaduram and Debra Chantry

Episode 10 (Wednesday 4 December)

• Position of women internationally: what can New Zealand women do to help their sisters in other countries?
  Interviews: Rosslyn Noonan on her work in Afghanistan and the Philippines;
  Dr Assil Russell, ICARE, helping provide medical and dental care in Iraq

Episode 11 (Wednesday 11 December)

• Why animal rights are a feminist issue
  Interview: Jasmine Gray
• Where to from here?
  Four short interviews: Marama Davidson; Kiran Foster and Lily; Orquidea Tamayo; Leonie Morris

Anyone in Auckland can view free to air Face TV but if you haven’t watched it before you need to tune for it. The programme can also be viewed online at www.scoop.co.nz – click on the Face Television logo.

Image: Family watching television, c. 1958 by Evert F. Baumgardner. Licence: In the public domain