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Canadian Constitution Act Equality
Canadian Constitution Act declares Aboriginal and Treaty Rights are guaranteed equally to men and women. -
Inclusion of Women
Concerned about women’s rights being excluded from the new Charter of Rights 1,300 women met and protested to Members of Parliament. The result was the inclusion of women’s rights in Canada’s constitution. -
Martial Rape and Sexual Harassment
Rape laws broadened to sexual assault laws; for the first time makes it a criminal offence for a man to rape his wife. In Ontario, police directed by the Attorney General to lay charges in domestic violence cases. The Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits sexual harassment in workplaces under federal jurisdiction. -
CLC Council
Election of six women for “affirmative action seats” at the CLC Council (Canada Labour Council). -
Jeanette Corbiere-Lavell
In 1971, serving as Ontario Women’s Association President she launched a court challenge to invalidate sex discrimination in the Indian Act. The law is eventually changed in 1985 so that Aboriginal women who marry non-status men can retain their Indian status. -
Sharon Wood, Canmore Alberta
First Canadian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
A century before, doctors discouraged women in sports claiming their uteruses would shrivel and they would become mentally ill. -
Bertha Wilson
The first woman Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Wrote one of the majority judgments which struck down Canada’s restrictive abortion law. When she had first applied to law school, a professor told her to go home and take up knitting -
Women's Pay Equity
Bell Canada, CEP and CTEA do a Joint Pay Equity Study. Canadian Human Rights Commission uses joint study as basis for assessing pay equity complaints. Final Report of the joint study finds women are underpaid! -
Rita Margaret Johnson
She was the first women to serve as a premier of a province -
Women's World March
UFCW Women march in Ottawa and New York to participate in the "Women's World March" supporting women and women rights. -
FTAA Protest
Anti-globalization protesters take to the streets in Quebec to protest.
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Women protest against the lack of protection of social policies in the agreement. Women in Canada and Mexico in solitude to fight against the globalization. -
Andrea Horwath
In 2009 Andrea Horwath became the first-ever woman leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
