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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 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.
However, with prominent Canadian political parties like the Liberal Party pledging to include more female representation in government [14] as well as parties like the New Democratic Party putting forward a slate made up of 52% women or gender diverse candidates in the 2021 election, [4] there is significant political pressure to increase the ...
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 2019 Canadian federal election where women made up 29.6% [10] of the Canadian Parliament which is higher than the global average of 25.5% [11] and very close to the 1995 United Nations goal ...
Four of the sixteen women first ministers won the title by defeating an incumbent first minister in a general election, while three were chosen by a consensus of their legislative assembly. The rest won the title through a party leadership race between elections, although several of those went on to win a general election as the incumbent premier.
In 2021, a by-election resulted in NWT gaining a majority of women representatives, a first for Canada. [2] The province with the highest percentage of women in their legislature is Quebec at 46.4%. Women currently represent 35.3 per cent (273 out of 772) of all provincial and territorial legislators across Canada as a whole.
Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unexpectedly resigned on Monday, saying she was no longer on the same page with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the best path forward for Canada.
Women have served in the Canadian Senate since Senator Cairine Wilson was first appointed to the Senate by the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1930. [1] Since then, women have represented every province and territory in the Senate except for Nunavut.