Karen Guilliland, New Zealand:
We had a very strong women's movement in New Zealand. They required more involvement in the childbirth processes. And they wanted midwives to take responsibility for that. So they campaigned all through the 80ies and 1990ies to have the mw be returned to her traditional roll. So that she could have her own clients and look after her own women and families. We, the midwives, joined the women who do that.
So in 1990 we managed to change the law that a mw could now practice autonomously.