Womens rights in Canada

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  • First paying job

    First paying job

    Teaching is the first and only profession open to women that leads to a pension.
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    Womens rights in Canada

  • Manitoba election act

    Manitoba election act

    Women in Manitoba are the first in canada to gain the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections.
  • Blue Bird Nurses

    Blue Bird Nurses

    After confederation women could leagally vote for the first time
  • An act to confer electoral Franchise upon Women

    An act to confer electoral Franchise upon Women

    Women gain the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections in Nova Scotia

  • Married Women's property act

    Women in PEI gain the right to vote in provincial elections

  • Women gain the right to vote in newfoundland.

  • Person's Case

    Person's Case

    Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parbly, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung. Five Alberta women fought a legal and political battle to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act

  • The act granting womens the right to vote.

    Women in Quebec gain the right to vote

  • Equal pay legislation is passed in Saskatchewan!!

  • Women's rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    section 15 and 28 in place, the women that have worked so diligently to ensure recognition of womens equality in the charter began a new journey.