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Roles of the Men

Jobs and Wages

Women and Gender Roles

Roles of the Women

Group Members:

Phillipe Han

Jason Chu

Erin Loo

Grace Tian

  • Expected to earn money to support the family
  • Farmers, store owners/workers, automotive compainies etc.
  • technology making factories - refridgerators,radios, telephones etc.

After the war middle-class women were given positions in pink collar sector jobs (service industry) such as phone operators, secretaries, et cetera. Wages were reduced to 60 percent for women compared to an average man's. Women were expected to be in the labour force until they were married. But during the Depression those with jobs were fired for being married or forced into retirement. But by the time WWII had arrived, with the exponential increase in production and employment, women whether they were married or single were allowed to be hired for lower wages once more.

  • Changed after WWI
  • Clothing - were considered more risque.
  • More job options - still difficult
  • libriarian, physiotherepists, nurses etc.
  • telephone operators "Hello girls" - connected calls from overseas/ billingual
  • Most rapidly growing occupation were clerical -storeclerks or office clerks
  • Domestic jobs - cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, shopping
  • Still had to be accompainied by a man

Nellie McClung

Women's Labor League

The Famous Five

Agnes Campbell Macphail

Consisted of:

- Emily Murphy, Irene Parbly, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Henrietta Edwards

- Persons Case:

- Consider if women were eligible to become part of the senate by the British North America Act.

- Supreme Court stated that "persons" did not apply to females.

- Later caught the attention of the British Privy Council

  • A Canadian feminist, politician, author, and social activist.
  • A part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada.
  • One of "The Famous Five"
  • Launched the "Persons Case," contending that women could be "qualified persons" eligible to sit in the Senate.

Born in Proton Township, Grey County,

Ontario (March 24 1890), before she

made her way to the House of Commons,

she taught at several schools in Ontario

and Alberta as a teacher. Afterwards she

would engage herself in farming politics

in Ontario where she would join the

United Farmers of Ontario. In 1921, she would be nominated to represent the South-East Grey County in the House of Commons as a member of the Progressive Party. At that time, Agnes MacPhail would be the only woman elected in Parliament. Later she would support the Famous Five in their efforts of giving women the right to sit in senate. Once she had become a member of the Ontario Legislature in 1943, she supported women's rights and wished to end legal discrimination against women.

Purpose: Defend women workers and support the labor movement.

- Most members were housewives, but some were

wage-working women

- Demands:

- Equal Pay as men

Exposed unfairness of wage laws.

-Maternity Care

To help support themselves

Bibliography

Evolution of Social Values

  • dance :shimmy
  • clothes :dress above the knee

tight

  • make up :lipstick

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/women-in-the-labour-force/

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/agnes-macphail/

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/status-of-women/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_McClung

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~gpopconf/person.html

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