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BPW
Tamaki Constitution & Bylaws
Constitution & Bylaws
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BPW Tamaki history and firsts
– focus on BPW NZ Policy instigated by BPW NZ
BPW Tamaki
was founded in 1967 and is the local organisation of the Federation
of Business & Professional Women New Zealand (BPW NZ).
As
a club we help women achieve professional and personal goals
through programs, workshops,
networking, and friendships. This is achieved through monthly
meetings and other sponsored activities. Each BPW club creates
its own unique agenda
to meet the needs and aspirations of its members, but
all have the same objectives.
BPW
promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy,
education and information.
With 31 branches nation wide, BPW is the leading advocate
for New Zealand women in regards to work-life balance and
work place equity issues.
BPW
provides members with professional development and networking
opportunities, along with participation in lobbying for legislative
change on issues important to women and the chance to enroll
in BPW's training programmes which cover a broad range of
business skills including women in leadership, refugee &
migrant issues, and negotiation techniques
BPW
New Zealand History
Working
for women in New Zealand since 1939.
During
Easter, in 1939, delegates from eight regions of the Y.W.C.A.
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Whangarei,
Auckland, Hamilton, New
Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin - met
in Wellington and, after studying papers
they had received from the International YWCA, agreed unanimously
"That
the Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
of the YWCA of New Zealand, Officially formed
at this convention, apply to the International Federation
of Business and Professional Women for Affiliation."
This application
was dispatched and two months later a cablegram reading "Directors
welcome your federation" was received. The founder President
was Miss Margery L. Toulson who was also immediately invited
to become the BPW International First Vice President.
Soon
after the war, in 1946, when the Federation comprised of 10
Clubs and was becoming recognised as a nationally organised
society, it separated from the YWCA. Some ten years later
membership had increased to 940 in 19 Clubs. This steady growth
continued so that, when the Federation celebrated its Golden
Jubilee in 1989, membership
totalled nearly 2000 in 45 Clubs located throughout New Zealand.
In
1991 the Federation adopted a new Constitution and became
registered as an incorporated society. The Federation has
maintained a close affiliation with the International Federation.
Delegates and observers have regularly attended BPW International
Congress and Board Meetings, members have served on Standing
Committees and four have been elected to international office.
In 1985 the XVIlth Congress was held in Auckland - the first
Congress in Australasia.
Immediately
from its formation the Federation has worked to eliminate
inequalities and discrimination against women and has supported
women in their achieving positions of responsibility and attaining
high standards of education and training. Although membership
is less than that of some women's organisations in New Zealand,
through the consistently high standard of submissions presented
on proposed legislation, the valuable contribution of members
serving on national, regional and local committees/councils
and the high profile of many Clubs, the Federation is now
recognised as a leader among national Non-Government Organisations,
and as a strong voice of New Zealand women in business and
the professions.
Official Collect of Business & Professional
Women’s Clubs
Keep
us, from pettiness;
Let us
be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us
be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking.
May we
put away all pretence and meet each other face to face -
without
self-pity and without prejudice.
May we
never be hasty in judgment and always generous.
Let us
take time for all things; Make us grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach
us to put into action our better impulses, straight-forward
and unafraid.
Grant
that we may realize it is the little things that create differences,
that in
the big things of life we are at one.
And may we strive to touch and to know
the great
common, human heart of us all, and, let
us not forget to be kind!
Aims
& Objectives ..as per Constitution BPWNZ
3.1 To work for:
- Equal opportunities and status for all women in the economic,
civil, and political life in all countries.
- The removal of discrimination
3.2 To encourage women and girls to
- Acquire education, occupational training, and continuing
education
- Use their occupational capacities and intelligence for
the advantage of others as well as themselves.
3.3 To improve the position of women
in business, trade, and the professions, and in the economic
life of their countries.
3.4 To stimulate and encourage in
women a realization and acceptance of their responsibilities
to the community, locally, nationally, and internationally.
3.5 To work for high standards of
service in business and the professions.
3.6 To promote world-wide friendship,
co-operation, and understanding between business and professional
women
3.7 To collect and present the views of
business and professional women to Parliament, national, and
world organizations and agencies.
Profile
of BPW Founder Dr Lena Madison Phillips
Dr Lena Madesin Phillips was born in the
then sleepy Kentucky hamlet of Nicholasville on September
15, 1881, in the fabled Bluegrass Region; her formative years
were spent in Nicholasville and Jessamine County, where her
father was county judge for 44 years. She was a talented musician
and although poor health forced her to abandon plans to become
a concert pianist, she continued to study music in New York
and did some composing.
After an interlude in Nicholasville,
she turned to a life-long interest in law and in 1917 was
the first woman to graduate with Honours from the University
Of Kentucky College Of Law. She was admitted to the bar in
the same year and began practicing law, first in her hometown,
then in New York City, in whose teeming streets she came face
to face with the injustice, despair and social ills which
had never touched her sheltered youth. She quickly sensed
what power could be generated by a national movement to organise
all women who had a business or a profession. Together they
could mould public opinion, set new working standards, improve
economic and industrial conditions and lay enduring foundations
for peace for the benefit of all mankind. To get such an organisation
on its feet became her consuming passion.
In 1919, she was offered, and accepted,
the post of business women's secretary for the national board
of the Y.W.C.A. in New York which led to her position of leadership
among the nation's business and professional women and the
founding of BPW USA in the same year.
In the late 1920's while president of the
US National Federation, she crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic
leading "goodwill tours" finding like-minded European
business women to form an international organisation and inspiring
them to give their all for the same cause. In 1930 her dream
was realised with the founding in Geneva of the International
Federation of Business & Professional Women. She was elected
President, a position she held for 17 years. Under auspices
of the Office of War Information, she toured clubs in various
countries of Europe during World War II to talk with women
and help plan for their future.
Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips practiced law
in New York City from 1923, wrote for magazines and served
as Consultant to Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations. The University of Kentucky awarded her an honorary
doctor of laws degree in 1939.
En route to a consultative conference with
women leaders of the Middle East to be held in Beirut, she
became ill and died on May 20, 1955, in Marseilles, France.
She is buried in the family plot in the Maple Grove Cemetery,
in Nicholasville, Kentucky
"Each woman, as a citizen, must bring
to the national policy of her own country, the contribution
of forward-looking and constructive thought followed by determined
action. Each woman must dedicate herself to protect and promote
the interests of all other women in business and the professions.
We invite the women of every nation to participate in this
effort and every man who is in sympathy with it to lend us
his moral support."
Dr.
Lena Madesin Phillips
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