Ettie Rout

Ettie Rout was a New Zealand journalist, writer and health campaigner whose work reshaped soldiers’ access to sexual-health information during the First World War. She founded the New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood and developed a prophylactic kit that the New Zealand Expeditionary Force later distributed to soldiers. Rout also wrote books on sex education and marriage, bringing a forthright reforming voice to subjects widely suppressed in her era.