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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 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 ...
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.
Women soon began to be appointed to cabinet positions, starting with Mary Ellen Smith in British Columbia in 1921, but it was not until decades later that women began to serve as leaders of a major party. Hilda Watson became the first woman to lead her party to victory in a general election in 1978.
Despite her dramatic loss in the election, Canadian women's magazine Chatelaine named Campbell as its Woman of the Year for 1993. [33] She published an autobiography, Time and Chance, (ISBN 0-770-42738-3) in 1996. The book became a Canadian bestseller and is in its third edition from the University of Alberta Bookstore Press (ISBN 000010132X).
Basevkin's book Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy discusses female politicians from the viewpoint of society. Terming female leaders as components of the discomfort zone, [ 3 ] where citizens, journalists, media, and other politicians will pick apart aspects of female politicians until there is nothing ...