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National Action Committee On The Status Of Women
The National Action Committee on the Status of Women was a Canadian feminist activist organization that existed from 1971 to 2007. History It was founded in 1971 as a pressure group to lobby for the implementation of the 167 recommendations made in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada's 1970 report on matters such as day care, birth control, maternity leave, family law, education and pensions. Initiated by the Committee for the Equality of Women in Canada which was founded in 1966 and successfully lobbied for the creation of the Royal Commission, the National Action Committee was founded as the successor to the Committee for the Equality of Women in Canada on January 30, 1971 with the purpose of being for the exchange of information about the activities and plans for action of the women's participating groups" and to "spearhead a drive for the implementation of those recommendations of the Royal Commission Report on the Status of Women which are aimed at equ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminism In Canada
The history of feminism in Canada has been a gradual struggle aimed at establishing equal rights. The history of Canadian feminism, like modern Western feminism in other countries, has been divided by scholars into four "waves", each describing a period of intense activism and social change. The use of "waves" has been critiqued for its failure to include feminist activism of Aboriginal and Québécois women who organized for changes in their own communities as well as for larger social change. Waves of Canadian feminism First wave The first wave of feminism in Canada occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This early activism was focused on increasing women's role in public life, with goals including women's suffrage, increased property rights, increased access to education, and recognition as "persons" under the law. This early iteration of Canadian feminism was largely based in maternal feminism: the idea that women are natural caregivers and "mothers of the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Status Of Women Canada
Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE; ), known as Status of Women Canada from 1976 to 2018, is a department of the Government of Canada. Previously an agency under the Department of Canadian Heritage, it gained department status after a vote in December 2018 passed the ''Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2'', which included legislation in favour of evolving the agency into a department and increasing its power, duties, and functions to those concerning not just women, but all gender identities. The purpose of the department is to "advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders, including women, in Canada's economic, social, and political life" as well as the intersection of these with other identities such as ethnicity, age, socio-economic level, disability, and others. The department partners with other areas of government, both federal and provincial, as well as civil and private orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Kaye
Lynn may refer to: People and fictional characters * Lynn (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Lynn (surname) * The Lynns, a 1990s American country music duo consisting of twin sisters Peggy and Patsy Lynn * Lynn (voice actress), Japanese voice actress Places Canada * Lynn Lake, Manitoba, a town and adjacent lake * Lynn, Nova Scotia, a community * Lynn River, Ontario Ireland * Lynn (civil parish), County Westmeath New Zealand * New Lynn, a suburb of Auckland United Kingdom * King's Lynn, a port town in Norfolk, England ** South Lynn, part of King's Lynn United States * Lynn, Alabama, a town * Lynn, Arkansas, a town * Lynn, Oakland, California, a former settlement * Lynn, Indiana, a town * Lynn, Massachusetts, a city ** Lynn (MBTA station) * Lynn, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Lynn, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, an historic community now part of Springville in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania * Lynn, Utah, an unincorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Dulude
Louise most commonly refers to: * Louise (given name) Louise or Luise may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Songs * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 * "Louise", by The Yardbirds from the album '' Five Live Yardbirds'', 1964 * "Louise", by Paul Revere & the Raiders from the album '' The Spirit of '67'', 1966 * "Louise", by Paul Siebel from the album '' Woodsmoke and Oranges'', 1970 * "Louise", by Leo Kottke from the album ''Greenhouse'', 1972 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise", by Clan of Xymox from the album ''Medusa'', 1986 * "Louise", by NOFX from the album '' Pump Up the Valuum'', 2000 * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise", by Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders from the album ''Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders'', 2006 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * Louise, by TV Girl, from '' French Exit'' Other arts and entertainment * ''Louise'' (2003 film), a Canadian animated short film by Anita Lebeau * ''Louise'' (opera), an op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaviva Hošek
Chaviva Milada Hošek, ; (born 6 October 1946) is a Canadian academic, feminist and former politician. Background Hošek was born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia. Her mother was imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. The family initially moved to Israel but then emigrated to Montreal in 1952. She received her undergraduate degree from McGill University and earned a doctorate in English literature from Harvard in 1973. She worked as a professor of English Literature at Victoria University in the University of Toronto for thirteen years, achieved tenured status and served on the University's governing council. In 1985 she was appointed co-chairman of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's National Economic Conference. In 1986 she resigned from the university and went to work for Gordon Capital Corp. as a pension consultant. An active feminist, she served as president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women from 1984 to 1986. She later described her time at the NAC as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Anderson
Doris Hilda Anderson, (November 10, 1921 – March 2, 2007) was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. She is best known as the editor of the women's magazine ''Chatelaine'', mixing traditional content (recipes, décor) with thorny social issues of the day (violence against women, pay equality, abortion, race, poverty), putting the magazine on the front lines of the feminist movement in Canada. Her activism beyond the magazine helped drive social and political change, enshrining women's equality in the Canadian Constitution and making her one of the most well-known names in the women's movement in Canada. Personal life Doris Anderson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta as Hilda Doris Buck to Rebecca Laycock Buck and Thomas McCubbin. Mrs. Buck, whose first husband had abandoned her and her two young sons, leaving them in debt, met McCubbin when he was a guest at her mother's boarding house in Calgary. She was staying with her sisters in Medicine Hat when Ande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn McDonald
Lynn McDonald (born 15 July 1940) is a Canadian academic, climate activist and former Member of Parliament. She is a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for Broadview—Greenwood from 1982 until 1988. McDonald is professor emerita of Sociology at the University of Guelph. In 2025, Dr. McDonald was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. Political career McDonald's first run for public office was during the 1981 provincial election when she was the Ontario New Democratic Party's candidate in the riding of Oriole in North York. The next year, she entered federal politics and was elected in the by-election held to fill the vacancy created by Bob Rae's departure from federal politics to take the leadership of the Ontario NDP. She defeated senior party aide Gerald Caplan on the third ballot to win the NDP nomination. In the by-election she defeated former '' Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Macpherson
Kathleen Margaret Macpherson née Walker (1913 – 19 August 1999) was a Canadian feminist known for her views on nuclear disarmament Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. Its end state can also be a nuclear-weapons-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated. The term ''denuclearization'' is also used to describe the pro ..., as well as being banned from the United States of America for her views. Early life Macpherson was born in Uxbridge, England in 1913. After her father died in 1917, the family moved to Branksome. There, Macpherson's mother remarried in 1920 and the family moved to Bedford. Her mother passed away in 1933. Career After completing school in 1932, she began training in physiotherapy at St Thomas' Hospital, St. Thomas' Hospital and completed her training in 1934. She moved to Montreal, Canada in 1935 to work as a physiotherapist after working five months in Selly Oak Hospital, Selly Oak. Her activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Marsden
Lorna Marsden, (born March 6, 1942) is a Canadian sociologist, academic administrator, and former Senator. She is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of both Wilfrid Laurier University and York University, and a former member of the Senate of Canada. Career Born in Sidney, British Columbia, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1968 and a Ph.D in sociology from Princeton University in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Doctors who teach: an influence on health delivery in Ontario." In 1972, she joined the University of Toronto where she was a professor of sociology. She was the Associate Dean of the Graduate School and the Vice-Provost (Arts and Sciences) at the University of Toronto. She attended the founding meeting of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women in April, 1972 and served as President of NAC from 1975 to 1977.She was active in the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women from 1971 and is co-author of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Hartman (trade Unionist)
Grace Hartman (née Fulcher; July 14, 1918 – December 18, 1993) was a Canadian labour union activist, whose 1975 election to the presidency of the Canadian Union of Public Employees made her the first woman in North America to lead a major labour union. Union activism Prior to 1963, Hartman was a member of one of CUPE's predecessor unions, the National Union of Public Employees. As a secretary for the Township of North York, Ontario, she was a member of NUPE Local 373. Hartman held several local executive positions and was elected president of the local in 1959, a position she held until 1967. Feminist activism Hartman was a prominent participant in the feminist movement, and a strong advocate for gender pay equity. In 1965, she chaired the Ontario Federation of Labour's Women's Committee. She joined the steering committee of the Committee for the Equality of Women in Canada in 1966, which successfully lobbied the Canadian government to establish the Royal Commission o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Sabia
Laura Sabia, (September 18, 1916 – October 17, 1996) was a Canadian social activist and feminist. Born Laura Villela in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Italian immigrants, she played an important part, in the National Chair of the Committee for the Equality of Women, in the creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women called by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in February 1967. Sabia received her education at Villa-Marie Convent and McGill University. While in Montreal, Laura was noted as the first female to be a part of St. Catharines Separate School Board in 1953, additionally being the president of multiple disciplines including YMCA and the Community Lecture Series. She was a founding member and, from 1969 to 1973, the first president, of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She was an alderwoman for St. Catharines City Council and wrote columns for '' The Toronto Sun'' in the 1970s and 80s. She also held the president position at the Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Woollard
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
