Canadian Women's Struggle for Equality

Every woman has the right to moral, legal and political choice. As we look to the past, women fought for the right to be treated the same as men and fundamentally to have the same rights as men. Prior to the turn of the century, women had little to no rights. World War I and II gave way to change, allowing women to work and eventually allowing them to vote. The feminist movement has made drastic progress since the war. Today women are seen as equal and have the right not only to vote, but to be educated. In 1977 the Canadian Human Rights Act ensured that women could no longer be discriminated based on their sex, race, religion or sexuality. The act specified that there must be “equal pay for

Between 1914 and today, Canada has changed for the better, as it becomes a more respectful country. There was a great change in women’s right shortly after WW1. Leaders such as the famous five fought for women’s right continuously. They achieved great success as women gained the right to vote and the right to serve in the Senate. Women were being respected as they were allowed to speak their mind and express their opinion, and were willing to participate in many other aspect of public life.

Throughout time women and their rights have varied among where they are living and the people that surround them. Some of the major changes with women’s rights is giving them the right to vote, reproductive rights, and the right to work for equal pay. Another thing that varies throughout time is women’s roles. For example 100 years ago the only jobs that women could have was to either be a housewife, nurse, or a teacher. Until about 1910, women didn’t really fight for their rights and what they could do. In 1910, women started to voice their opinions in society and fought for the right to vote. Though things have changed greatly today, there are still women in the world that believe in the “traditional way” and prefer to still wait on

Canadian women had very hard lives. An average day consisted of housework and caring for ten to twelve children. There was always a high risk of death or disability during childbirth, or many newborns died at birth. Even their educational expectations were low after marriage because women didn't work outside, but in the 1900s, women made up 15 percent of undergraduates at universities, restricted from professions like law. But soon, a campaign for women's suffrage was born because of suffragists. A suffragist is a person who supports the rights of women. Most suffragists were middle-classed women who were devoted to social reform. They tried to persuade the government to franchise women's rights. Part of the suffragists were members of the Women's Christian

The 1920s were a brutal time for Canada and most countries in the world. The Great War had just ended and soldiers were coming home to no work and minimal food. While the male soldiers were gone fighting the war, females took their place in factories, manufacturing war equipment and doing regular work that normally men would do. When the surviving soldiers came back, they were furious and wanted work to make money so most of the women were kicked out and replaced by the men. Women were obviously not happy about this and fought to make a change. One of the most notable feminists and successful female suffragists in Canadian history is Emily Murphy. She fought alongside four other feminists to create equal legal recognition as males and succeeded;

Up until the 1920s, women’s struggle for their right to vote seemed to be a futile one. They had been fighting for their suffrage for a long time, starting numerous women's rights movements and abolitionist activists groups to achieve their goal. “The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and 30s, most states had enfranchised almost all white males (“The Fight for Women's Suffrage” ). This sparked women to play a more emphatic role in society. They began to participate in anti-slavery organizations, religious movements, and even meetings where they discussed that when the Constitution states "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain

Women are flooding factory gates and demanding work. There have been several protests recently, but today seems to have involved city officials. These protests started last year, but have progressed in this year. Today April 17, 1917 women are marching down the streets to employers. These women claim that they want jobs because the men aren’t at home; fighting in the Great War.

The 21st Century has brought about improvements to the general welfare state in Canada – greater access to resources such as food and shelter. Women still struggle to find equitable living conditions in our society. In fact, women below the poverty line require significantly more attention than men. The number of homeless women is drastically increasing due to rising levels of domestic abuse. Women require greater medical attention due to drastic rates of various health issues. And finally, women find it more difficult to attain equitable pay in the workforce, and often must resort to alternate methods to make a fair wage. Women who experience domestic abuse flee the home in order to escape the mental and physical mistreatment, as well as for their safety. According to a study, domestic abuse occurs more frequently among unemployed or poor people (Novac, 4). Women must rely on other sources for food and shelter in order to survive. Ultimately domestic

Women are weak, and they need to be protected. Men are strong, and they are always better than women. This is what most of the people has been thinking from the ancient time to modern days. Even though there are no evidence, and it is just a stereotype, people still believe it is true. Canada also has the same problem. Women in Canada were not allowed to vote in 1900’s, and got less benefits compared to men. Therefore, Canadian women has tried to prove that they are also strong, and can do whatever they want. Although women are not equal with men, their efforts made women to be more equal with men than before. It means their exertions were pretty successful because women’s suffrage extended, women are more equally paid in the workplace,

In Canada, women comprise over 50% of the population and the fact that they are not present in halls of government in proportion to their population reflects poorly on our democracy. The significant under-representation of women in Canadian legislation has severe consequences that are symbolic; it deprives our government’s policy-making process the input of a significant portion of Canadians. A system that does not adequately represent its majority population calls into question the legitimacy of our democratic institutions. Women’s participation in formal politics is crucial because the quantity of representation will influence the quality of representation in Canadian legislation. It reflects poorly on democracy because the minorities, the white heterosexual men in power, are regulating the majority population. Women need to advocate for mirror representation and not settle for a quota. A quota in our legislation is not enough to ensure sufficient representation of women in decision making. When we have a few women in our legislation they no longer fight for those who elected them in the first place. Instead they are pressured by the majority of men in power to conform to the culture and practices that continue to oppress those who elected them in the first place. When there are enough women in legislature to mutually support one another, we will begin to see decisions that improve citizen’s quality of life. In this essay I will argue that political parties need to ensure

They finally got the right to vote in 1920 which was a huge step for America. However, since they could do that and it was a pretty big deal, they believed anything could be done and certainly acted on it. They had been bossed around for so many years and were finally done with being treated poorly and not as superior as men. Louise Benner stated in “A New Woman Emerges” that, “Society now accepted that women could be independant and make choices for themselves in education, jobs, marital status, and careers… the new woman was on her way.” Nobody around the area or almost anywhere had been used to women having a say in anything, so this was a big step for people to start treating genders equally. Everybody is his own person, and if we can’t be treated like that, it seems like society is taking away some people's possible opportunities. Many women who had husbands in war unfortunately lost them. That’s another reason women need more rights because if they lose their husband or whoever they are living with, it would be close to impossible to fend for themselves. Usually these women figured that they couldn’t do anything for themselves before so they didn’t think they could after the tragedy either. However, once women did gain confidence and felt they could do more for themselves, they commonly left home and went against everything they had been taught before. “The Great Gatsby” even shows that women did indeed change their looks along with their personalities. “The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white (Fitzgerald 34).” Rather than staying with the victorian ways of life, her along with many others wanted a change. It seems like it would be a good idea to get out of a bad habitat where they were commonly treated like servants by their husbands and even

living. But, if it wasn’t for their will to fight, these changes may have never occurred. Women

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The article “Trudeau names new 2 senators including, Canada’s first indigenous 1st female indigenous senator” by John Paul Tasker published on CBC in December 2017 talks about Justin Trudeau’s decision to appoint two new female judges. Mary Jane McCallum was elected to represent Manitoba in the chamber while Mary Coyle will represent Nova Scotia. Both of the women have been involved in careers focused on helping disadvantaged groups of people for example Mary McCullum is a social justice advocate and is known for her work with the aboriginal communities in Manitoba. Nova Scotia senators Mary Coyle is known for her work in a post-secondary field and is proud advocate of rights of indigenous people. She is also responsible of establishing

Those restrictions on women to stay at home and focus on their families led to a larger feminist movement in the 1960s. Tired of the sex discrimination, the National Organization of Women (NOW) was formed. This company attacked the false image of women being only dedicated to marriage and motherhood. NOW grew out of middle-class feminism, but women wanted a more radical approach to their movement in women liberation. This comes the first approach of change. Radical feminists first campaigned for the “repeal of state laws that underscored women’s lack of self-determination by banning abortions or leaving it up to the decision of the physician” (Foner, Edition 4, Page 1007). Women should be able to do whatever they want with their body because