Women's role progression

women started doing what was considered mens work

suffrage

Huguette Plamondon

womens protesting

Women started getting an education

Huguette Plamondon Elected president of the Montreal Labour Council in 1955, becoming first woman to lead a major Canadian labour organization. ( Her Campaign poster)

Women should have equal rights

New clothing

Emily Murphy

Nellie McClung

Henrietta Muir Edwards

Louise McKinney

Irene Parlby

Persons case

White women in Ontario and British Columbia get right to vote provincially.

Emily Murphy Appointed Canada’s first female judge. (Newsarticle)

Equal pay

Elimination of sexual harassment

Rosie the Riveter poster

The International Labour Organization (ILO) passes Convention 100 calling for “equal pay for equal work”

Amendments to the Criminal Code: Pro-choice legalized in certain circumstances.

In the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women it was reported that 167 recommendations were needed to improve the lives of women.

Aboriginal womens movements

Womens rights in the Canadian Constitution

Margaret Mitchell

Bertha Wilson

Canadian Constitution Act declares Aboriginal and Treaty Rights are guaranteed equally to men and women.(Canadian Constitution)

The Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits sexual harassment in workplaces under federal jurisdiction.(Human rights act)

Concerned about women’s rights being excluded from the proposed new Charter of Rights 1,300 women met and lobbied Members of Parliament. The result was the inclusion of women’s rights in Canada’s constitution. (picture)