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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 ]
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 was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election.
August 2, 2015: NDP: First Sri Lankan-Canadian woman elected to Parliament Susan Truppe (born 1959) London North Centre: May 2, 2011: August 4, 2015: Conservative: Nycole Turmel (born 1942) Hull—Aylmer: May 2, 2011: August 2, 2015: NDP: Interim NDP Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition (2011–2012) Wai Young (born 1960) Vancouver ...
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.
In Quebec, a province where women make up 50.4% [16] of the population, gender parity is even closer to being achieved with women making up 42.4% of the National Assembly. [18] The Northwest Territories have come the closest to achieving gender parity with women making up 48.3% [16] of the population and 47.3% of the Legislative Assembly. [19]
Anita M. Vandenbeld [2] MP (born December 3, 1971) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean for the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election. [4] She was re-elected in the same riding in 2019, and re-elected in 2021. [5]
Emily Murphy (born Emily Gowan Ferguson; 14 March 1868 – 26 October 1933) [1] was a Canadian women's rights activist and author.In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and the fifth in the British Empire after Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, Jane Price, E. Cullen and Cecilia Dixon of Australia (all appointed to office in 1915).