Demonstration relating to the Domestic Purposes Benefit outside the Department of Social Welfare, Wellington in 1977.
The DPB was introduced in 1973 with the aim of helping women with a dependent child or children who had lost the support of a husband, or were inadequately supported by him. While men could claim the DPB the vast majority of those claiming the benefit were women.
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