How Did Nellie Mcclung Treat Women In The 1920s

Women were treated very unfairly and wrong up until 1920 but are still somewhat mistreated

today. Women pushed very hard to be seen as equal to men for things such as jobs, the right to vote and

daily life. Nellie Mcclung played a huge part on womens path to equality especially the right to vote. Men

treated women like objects instead of human beings and greatly mistreated them.Today there is the

#metoo movement which stands for people who have been sexually assaulted or harassed in a workplace

or other places, but it stands for much more than that. Women fought very hard to get the rights they have

today and are still fighting for some.

Women worked as hard as they could for their rights and they have made tons of positive

She led the liberal campaign against Sir Rodman

Roblins who refused women's suffrage in 1914. She moved to Edmonton, Alberta in in 1915 where she

continued to fight for women's right and suffrage. In 1921 she went throughout Canada and gave speeches

and gained a lot of recognition and became a liberal MLA for Edmonton. Nellie McClung played a

crucial point in women's suffrage and gaining women's rights in Canada.

The MeToo movement has been virally spread on the internet and social medias since 2017 and is

known almost worldwide. The movement stands against sexual assault and harassment especially at work,

in 2006 Tarana Burke created the hashtag #metoo on the social media website MySpace, She is also in the

process of creating a documentary called Me Too. In late 2017 actress Alyssa Milano then tweeted out “If

all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too.' as a status, we might

give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem." Her encouragement of the movement

popularized it across the world and made it the movement it is today. #metoo has made many

people open their eyes to how bad sexual assault and harassment really is across the