[2] As of 2011[update], it had a circulation of 82,040, third by paid sales after TV Guide and Are Media's New Zealand Woman's Day.

[3] On 8 December 1932, journalists Otto Williams and Audrey Argall launched the magazine,[4] with 7,000 copies on newsprint.

Early in 1933, solicitor Vernon Dyson bought it, and his wife Hedda became the second editor.

[6] In 2007, the magazine celebrated its 75th anniversary with guest Prime Minister Helen Clark.

[13][14] On 17 July, Mercury Capital announced that it would resume publishing the Women's Weekly and other former Bauer publications.