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Jobs and Wages
Roles of the Women
Group Members:
Phillipe Han
Jason Chu
Erin Loo
Grace Tian
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.
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
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
tight
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