Views From Interviews (PNG Oxford Pacific Writers)

Biographies of five successful professional women in Papua New Guinea who have overcome prejudice and gained professional eminence in a male dominated society. The women surveyed are Dr Rose Kekedo, the first Papua New Guinean woman to hold a senior management position in a major commercial enterprise and the first to head a government department in her country; Margaret Taylor, who was the first Papua New Guinean woman to gain a law degree and enter her country's legal profession; Rose Muingnepe, chairperson of the Papua New Guinea Council of Churches; notable female author Nora Bagir Brash; and Dr Naomi Martin, the first Papua New Guinean woman to gain a Doctor of Philosophy and who currently heads the Commission for Higher Education in her country.