Women's Rights In Canada

The only job that women were allowed to do was to help their husbands in their farms. But that all had changed when the United States went into wars and men had to go fight for the country. Women began to occupy a few jobs like working in munition factories or becoming the angels of mercy and working as nurses to relieve the soldiers’ pain. That was the starting point for women to begin demanding to work like men. Although occupied few jobs for very low pay, women were still not considered a part of the work force and they did not have any formal workplace rights and usually faced discrimination and unfair treatment from the other gender.

Their relationships were controlled, and they had to have a chaperone with them at all times during the date. Women were also unable to vote and there were very few paid jobs, as they were expected to be housewives and those who did have a job were extremely low paid ones like cleaning ladies, dress makers and secretaries. However, during the First World War, women were taken into war industries which

CHAPLIN TO CHURCHILL INTRODUCTION There was a time when women used to face many problems while living in the society. However, this trend has been changed but women have to follow various tactics in order to maintain harmony in the society and to stay at par with men. It took a lot for them to resolve the struggles of equal rights and to implement the same in real world without giving rise to any controversy. A few years ago women were never seen in influential roles due to many discriminatory factors but now the whole era has been changed and many women can be seen performing really well even better than men. This only has become possible due to the hardships faced by women in old times and how they fought for their rights

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) Act helped to achieve this objective. It was believed that the married women were draining the unemployment insurance fund and therefore, an amendment to the UI Act disqualified married women from UI benefits unless certain conditions were fulfilled that proved her attachment to the labour force. Additionally, the lack of childcare facilities made most women see home as their first priority so as to nurture her young ones. A survey of married women in the labour force conducted by the Department of Labour in 1958 in eight cities in Canada found that only a minority had recourse to organized daycare facilities and in the absence of such facilities, grandmothers and other relatives, older children and neighbours looked after young children while mothers had to go to

They were always ranked lower than men in the feudal system, which led to their powerless role in society. During this time, women were even more maltreated than in the Hellenistic kingdoms, where women had more freedom and weren’t hed to ideal woman standards. Their lives were not just a constant cycle taking care of the household, reproducing, and caring for the children. There were similarities between the lives of peasant women and noble women, yet still a few distinctions that make a huge impact on how various their lifestyles

Gender Roles Today women are paid seventy-five cents to the dollar of what men make because it is perceived that women have a lower ranking than men. Women are expected to settle down, get married, have kids, and stay a housewife and/or stay at home mom for the rest of their lives. A woman is expected to stay at home to cook, clean, and make sure everyone else’s needs are met before her own. But, what a woman is not expected to do is go out, have a career of her own, and take care of herself. Females are definitely more restricted by conventional gender roles.

This issue of women's rights in the workplace has gotten more and more recognized as woman start to speak up. In many countries around the world, women tend to make less than men and are usually offered these stereotypical jobs as a secretary, maid, nanny, nurse, teacher, librarian etc because this is what men think women are cable of. Although not every woman has these jobs some do have the great chance to have a job in the workplace that's higher in payment that those jobs offer. But men do still make more money than women. “In many industries, female workers are systematically denied their rights to regular pay and regular working hours; equal pay for equal work; permanent contracts; safe and non-hazardous work environments; and freedom of association” ( IRLF).

In Canada in 1972 the act for "equal justice under law" called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was passed. Despite the fact that women have contended energetically for fairness with respect to balance in workforce there is far to go. Some of the barriers women faces are lack of education in equality, having to leave work for family and society. This holds them back from being empowered and from reaching the top. Their barriers are stopping them from getting to the top and causes underrepresentation of women.

Life in the Middle Ages seems like it was very difficult. Women had a lot less rights than men did. Men got all different high power roles in society. Women were just expected to run the household and take care of children. Plus, wives by law were supposed to just be "under" their husband.

Furthermore, Silal et al. (2012) also suggested that often women were mistreated by being turned away from the clinics as they far enough within the labour period, this would however, resulted in some still births as no one with medical training was around when they mother gave birth (Silal et al., 2012) Another root cause of maternal mortality rate is culture paired with education (Kakuma et al., 2010). Which is also rooted in poverty. As many women do not have access to health facilitates due to their location, they are often dependent on traditional healers rather than doctors (Ngomane & Fhumulani, 2010). As this is a constant within rural communities it often becomes a practice in which the community does not seek formal, western medical assistance, but uses the guidance of elders and rational healers (Ngomane & Fhumulani, 2010).