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Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election.
This book is regarded as the first to focus on women in politics between 1945 and 1975. [5] Later, she also published The politics of abortion with Shelley A. M. Gavigan and Jane Jenson. [ 6 ] Brodie was then hired as Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta in 1997. [ 7 ]
This represents a gain of three seats from the previous record of 100 women in the 43rd Canadian Parliament, of whom 98 were elected in the 2019 federal election, [1] followed by two more at subsequent by-elections in 2020. Women have been elected to the House of Commons from every province and territory in Canada.
The number of women in the Canadian Parliament has been slowly but steadily increasing since the 1980s [9] and has reached its highest point following the 2021 Canadian federal election where women made up 30.5% [10] of the Canadian House of Commons, higher than the global average of 25.7% [11] and surpassing the 1995 United Nations goal of 30% ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday addressed Vice President Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election, calling it a setback for gender representation in politics, during a ...
Anita Vandenbeld contributed a chapter on women's political participation to the book 'Turning Parliament Inside Out: Practical Ideas for reforming Canada's democracy'. [ 98 ] As part of the Cambridge Viet-Nam Women's Leadership Programme, Anita Vandenbeld co-authored the UNDP publication 'Women's Representation in the National Assembly of Viet ...
Canadian women's social, political, and cultural roles and influence changed dramatically during WWII. Women had taken over many of the missing roles of men while they were off at war. Women worked in factories, took over farms, and proved their importance in society.
The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.