Key Aspects of Life for Canadian Women
by Maddie Yim
1. WWI
2. WWII
3. The Roaring 20s
4. The Great Depression
5. Worked jobs that were traditionally done by men
6. Men were at war
7. Ticket collectors, police officers, firefighters, tram conductors, farming, and in factories
8. Manufacturing war weapons
9. Nurses during the war
10. Deaths from exposure to TNT
11. Women's right to vote
12. People's views on how useful women were
13. Society's standards of women
14. Women began changing their attitudes, behaviour, and dress
15. "Flappers" Women who cut their hair short, wore dramatic makeup, wore shorter skirts, smoked, drank, and were sexually liberated.
16. More women in the workplace
17. More women tried to find work to make ends meet
18. Men couldn't support their families
19. More women were left by their husbands
20. Women's power in the household enhance
21. 1950s
22. 1960s
23. 1970s to 1980s
24. 1990s to Present
25. Society to accept goals of Sixties feminism, including...
26. Equal pay for equal work
27. End to sexual harassment and domestic violence
28. Sharing responsibility of housework and children
29. Women's fight for equal rights
30. Birth control
31. Women's feeling of freedom and power
32. Pressure on women to get married, especially early in their lives
33. Women to stay at home
34. Women to have many children
35. Women's fight for the Feminist movement
36. Protesting and picketing
37. More support of women in the workplace
38. Magazines featuring women working alongside men
39. Women earning more job opportunities and managerial positions
40. Women were still paid less than men
41. Both parents could have jobs and housework was nearly equal
42. Normalcy for women to be in powerful positions and careers
43. Executives, doctors, lawyers
44. Socially acceptable to be a single mom
