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A Barrier To Equality is anything that prevents someone from participating fully in society like people today taking the right to vote for granted when for women it was denied for years
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Attitudes toward women slowly began to change. Small groups of women from Canada, the USA, and Europe, known as the suffragettes, worked together to fight for the right to vote.
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Dr. Emily Stowe founded the first suffragettes group called the Toronto Woman's Literary Club to fight for the right for women to vote.
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Nellie McClung helped establish the Winnipeg Political Equality League. It soon became one of the most effective suffrage organizations in Canada.
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WWI was a turning point for women because while the men fought in Europe, many woman took their places in farm and factory jobs. This helped woman earn respect and they won the right to vote.
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In 1916, Manitoba became the first province to give women the right to vote. Soon after, other Western provinces followed Manitoba.
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This is the year the government passes a regulation preventing married woman from holding jobs in the government unless they had no other income.
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The famous five asked parliament to define the term "person" as it was used in the BNA Act. The wanted to know if it included women.
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The Supreme Court of Canada decided that the word "person" meant male persons only and that woman were not legal persons and couldn't hold any appointed office.
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The British court overruled the Supreme Court of Canada's decision and said that women were legal "persons" and that they qualified for appointment to the Senate.
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Carine Wilson became the first woman to be appointed to the Senate.
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During this time, 45,000 Canadian women joined the army taking on jobs as nurses, drivers, firefighters, and radio technicians. They had training and uniforms but weren't allowed to fight the enemy in combat.
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In1955 the legislation favoring hiring men was abolished.
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PM John's government passed the Canadian Bill of Rights, the first human rights legislation in Canada.
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By 1973 only 22 woman, including Agnes, had ever been elected to the house of commons.
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The protection of women's rights were set forth in section 28 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which made rights and freedoms equal for men and women.
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In 1983, a civil servants' union complained that women were not being paid the same as men. In 1998 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that female employees were being discriminated against and ordered the fed gov. to pay billions in back wages.
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Fed gov passed Employment Equity Act to correct discrimination experienced by certain groups, like woman in particular.
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By 2001, 34 of the 105 Canadian senators were female
