The Women

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The Womens Movement
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The Role of Women Before the War

• 1. Until the mid 1800s women worked in the home
  and were only responsible for domestic duties

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2. Men worked, controlled family finances and
made major decisions
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Nellie McClung

• 1. Suffragette
• 2. Founder of the Womens Christian Temperance
  Union
• 3. Campaigned in favour of prohibition

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Impact of World War One

• 1. Increase in female employment
• 2. Women gained independence in the workforce
  while the men were away at war

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Womens Demands

• 1. Female Suffrage (the vote)

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2. Better working conditions and pay 3. Higher
Education 4. Equal rights in marriage and divorce
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Key Changes in the 1920s

• 1. More women involved in sports

• Bobbie Rosenfeld

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2. More women working outside the home 3. Women
seeking higher education, professional jobs
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4. Problems within the family (desertions,
domestic violence, and alcoholism)
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Winning the Vote

1. Wartime Elections Act (1917)
2. Women win federal vote -1918

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• 3. Provinces grant female suffrage
• Man. (1916)
• Alberta, Sask., B.C., Ont. (1917)
• Nova Scotia (1918)
• New Brunswick (1919)
• PEI (1920)
• Quebec (1940)

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The Persons Case

• Under the BNA Act
• Women are persons in matters of pain and
  penalties, but not persons in matters of rights
  and responsibilities

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Emily Murphy

• 1. First Canadian woman to be appointed a judge
• 2. Denied a position in the Canadian Senate
  because she was not considered a person under
  Canadian Law

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The Famous Five

• Argued before the Supreme Court of Canada that
  women are persons - they lost
• Took the case to the Privy Council in London and
  won!
• Women were declared persons under Canadian law.

Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir
Edwards, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney
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Cairine Wilson

• Cairine Wilson was appointed the first female
  senator in Canada in 1930.