Women were considered property and had neither voting or political rights
What are the rights women didn't have prior to 1929?
100
Five Alberta women Emily Murphy, Nelly McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrietta muirs Edwards and Louis McKinney
What is the The Famous five ?
100
Provides for the development of employment equity or affirmative-action programs in workplaces that fall under jurisdiction
What is the Federal Employment Act
100
Attained through the struggle and efforts of advocates such as Neille Mclung and Emily Murphy
What is voting rights for women
100
All humans are born free and equal
What is Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
200
Political office, sitting in the senate and becoming judges
What are the positions women were excluded from?
200
Edwards v. Attorney General for Canada
What is "The Persons Case?"
200
Protected employees working under federal jurisdiction ( banks, airlines etc.)
What is Canadian Human Rights Act
200
First province to legislate a woman's right to vote
What is Manitoba?
200
Targets women, aboriginals, people with disabilies and other visible minorites
What is Affirmative- action program
300
Women were considered "persons" under the Canadian Law
What is 1929
300
Under what act was the Supreme of Canada to declare women were persons?
What is the British North American American Act?
300
First province to legislate a woman's right to vote
What is Manitoba?
300
governments enacted legislation to protect women from this form of discrimination
What is to remedy the pay inequities
400
Women were paid significantly less
What is although men and women were doin comparavle work?
400
The Famous Five appealed to this Council
What is Judicial Committee of the Privacy Council
400
It is a discriminatory practice for an employer to establish or maintain differences in wages between male and female employees in the same establishment
What is section 11 (1)
400
protected employees working under federal jurisdiction ( banks, airlines, postal services.)
What is The Canadian Human Acts Right?
400
Also viewed as a barrier to inequality
What is reluctance on the part of Federal and Provincial Government
500
Famous 5
What is , Emily Murphy, Nelly McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muirs Edwards and Louise McKinney.
500
Significance of 1929
What is women were persons?
500
Fundamental aspects of equality
What is Equitable wages?
500
Other provinces followed suit after this
What is Manitoba legislated woman's right to vote?
500
Have been aided by the extension of maternal leave