This group's inquiry is focused on five women fighting for their rights, in 1929, enabling women to sit as members of the Senate.
The members of the
group are:
Sarah
Thornton Selena
Hardy Ainslie
McDougall
Katrina
McDonnell Kelly
Jones
Article: "The
Evolution of Women's Human Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada"
Source: Canadian
Issues/Themes Canadiens
Authors: F.
Pearl Eliadis and Reema Khawja
This article refers
to the 1929 Privy Council Court decision that enabled women to become "persons"
and members of the
Senate. With this, we as a group are trying to understand why people
believed
what they did, why
these women stepped forward to such a task, and how it affected all those
around
them.
Here's our detailed overview on our group's inquiry the "persons case."
We were concerned to identify the Beliefs involved in this event. We also looked at Religion and Sociology.
Here's a look at men's attitudes toward women in the 1920's.
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The "Famous Five"
include:
1) Emily
Murphy
2) Nellie
McClung
3)
Louise McKinney
4) Henrietta
Edwards
5)
Irene Parlby
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Other interesting
information
can be found here, you
can play a trivia game or simply find out what the "Famous Five" women
had to say!
The background information on this article can be found here. You can find out more information about why the author made reference to this article, or even check out our bibliography.
Archived material we worked with in preparing this report.