Ethel Rebecca Benjamin
Ethel Rebecca Benjamin
Ethel Rebecca Benjamin was the first New Zealands first female lawyer. She was born in Dunedin, New Zeland on 19 January 1875 to Lizzie Mark and her husband, Henry Benjamin, a prominent Dunedin money-broker. The Benjamins had at least seven children, of whom it is believed Ethel was the eldest. The family were Orthodox Jews and members of Dunedin's small Jewish community.Ethel Benjamin attended Otago Girls' High School from 1883 to 1892. Sadly she died in October 14, 1943She excelled in her studies: in 1885 she received the Dalrymple Victoria prize; in 1888 she won an Education Board Junior Scholarship; and in 1892 she passed the university junior scholarship examination.
Why is she a Breakthrough Women?
Ethel Benjamin (1875–1943) was the first woman to become a lawyer in New Zealand. In 1893 she enrolled for an LLB degree at the University of Otago, the first university in Australasia to permit women to take a law degree. She graduated in 1897 and on 10 May was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. She is a breakthrough women to me because she gave access to all women that they can succeed and that they do have as much rights as male's do. Aswell as she opened uo the oppurtunity to all women world wide to be lawyers.