Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association

Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association (PPSEAWA), earlier Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA), is an international women's organization, founded in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1930.[1] The Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) changed its name to Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association in 1955.[2]

Conferences

Pan-Pacific Union

Australian delegates to the inaugural Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawaii in 1928

In 1928, the First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference was organised in Honolulu under the umbrella of Pan-Pacific Union with the support of the New Zealand Women Teachers' Association.[3] It was the first international women's conference arranged outside of the Western world and in the Pacific region.

Pan-Pacific Women's Association

When the second Pan-Pacific Women's Conference was arranged on Honolulu on Hawaii in 1930, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association was founded. The Pan-Pacific Women's Association arranged the following Pan-Pacific Women's Conferences: Honolulu (1934 and 1949), Canada (1937), New Zealand (1952), The Philippines (1955) and Japan (1958).

Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association

The Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association's recent conference locations include Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2016), Taiwan (2019), and Wellington, New Zealand (2024).

References

  1. ^ Paisley, F. (2009). Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific. USA: University of Hawaii Press.
  2. ^ "About PPSEAWA - PPSEAWA International - Pan-Pacific & Southeast Asia Women's Association". www.ppseawa.org. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  3. ^ Dalziel, Raewyn. "Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women's Association" (First published in Women Together: a History of Women's Organisations in New Zealand in 1993 and updated by Raewyn Dalziel in 2018.). New Zealand History Ngā kōrero a ipurangi o Aotearoa. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.