Abstract This nine page paper examines the accomplishments and experiences of Canadianwomen since 1929. The writer assesses their contributions to their families and society and discusses their changing roles as they struggled for gender equality. The writer points out that women comprise one-half of the Canadian population, deserve respect for their many achievements and are becoming much more assertive about expressing their feelings about issues that concern them.
From the Paper "Studying the accomplishments and experiences of Canadian women since 1929, assessing their contributions to their families and society, and discussing their changing roles as they struggled for gender equality are of vital importance today. Women comprise one-half of the Canadian population, deserve respect for their many achievements, and are becoming much more assertive about expressing their feelings about issues that concern them."
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the contribution of Canadianwomen during World War II. These women mainly contributed through unpaid labor in the home and through volunteer work.
Abstract In this article, the writer notes that today's society is based on a gender binary that requires men and women to be opposites. Men are expected to be active and aggressive; women are expected to be inactive and passive. The writer discusses that women in sports directly challenge this gender binary - they are not passive, but rather the opposite of passive. The writer maintains that women in sports are sometimes subjected to the abuse and discrimination that all gender outlaws in our society attract. The writer points out that this issue is particularly marked in Canadianwomen's hockey. The women's team is far more successful than the men's team and yet most people don't even know it exists. The writer discusses that women playing hockey detract from the aggressive male image associated with male hockey, while at the same time challenging every tenet of the gender binary. The writer concludes that teenagers should be taught parenting skills of which an important part should be examining and unlearning the sexism they have already learned from society.
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From the Paper "Thus, as soon as a woman is strong and brave, she is suddenly a suspect! No wonder no one pays any attention to Canada's women hockey players!
"What is the solution to this? Clearly, there has to be an education program to combat the enduring belief in biological essentialism. Children need to be taught from a very young age that all people are capable of all attributes. They need to understand that the various human qualities are a virtual smorgasbord, from which they can freely choose, regardless of their gender. They need to be exposed to role models of adults who transcend the usual norms."
Abstract This paper discusses how ice hockey was once identified as a quintessentially Canadian sport and at the same time a key figure in the domain of masculine sports. However over recent years hockey has garnered strength as an international sport and has expanded its membership to include that of women. The paper further dicusses how att the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, the Canadianwomen's hockey team won gold whilst their male counterparts failed to reach the medal round. What relevance does this result have for Canada involvement in international competition, and what does it mean for the role of women in traditional male dominated sports?
Abstract The paper provides an overview of the hundreds of ways that Canadianwomen contributed to the war effort during the Second World War. The paper discusses the CanadianWomen's Auxiliary Corps (CWAC), the Women's Division of the Royal Canadian Airforce (RCAF), the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, the Canadian Red Cross Corps and the nurses in the armed forces. The paper portrays the variety of jobs Canadianwomen did during the Second World War and contends that the Allies could not have won the war without their help.
From the Paper "When people think about the Second World War they think about the men who lost their lives in battle and the Jews and other minorities who died in the Holocaust. They think about the Germans, versus the Allies, Hitler and Churchill, and Guns, bombs and maybe even a naval battle. Rarely do thoughts of the Second World War bring to mind images of women. When people think about the Allied victory and the factors that allowed the Allies to win rarely are women remembered. Canadian women, living in a country not directly affected by the war are often forgotten. The Canadian women however did not just stay at home and wait for their men to come home. They too wanted to see an end to this war and they too helped with the war effort. There were many options available to Canadian women, and over a million women signed up to help in any way they could. These women made a significant difference not only to their own country but to other allied nations as well. The Allies could not have won the Second World War without the efforts of Canadian women."
Abstract This paper examines the roles of Canadianwomen on the home front and overseas during World War II, and analyzes why Canadianwomen returned to their traditional gender roles after the war was won. The author notes that because millions of Canadianwomen had not served, they and millions of Canadian men whose ideas of gender roles had never changed, exerted significant pressure to conform on former servicewomen, due to society's rigid expectations that the proper place for Canadianwomen was in the home.
Abstract Every nation has a unique way of expressing their most deeply held beliefs and customs through local art, community projects, or organized activities like sports. This paper explains that, in Canada, geography and nature have resulted in the game of hockey being part of the national landscape. The paper further discusses John B. Lee's book, "The Hockey Sonnets", and how it uses the mythology of hockey to express cultural ideologies and dramatic narratives from the viewpoint of the Canadian cultural identity.
Abstract This paper examines the role of Canadianwomen in the social reform movement during the time period 1870-1921. The paper focuses on the role that Canadianwomen played in achieving social reform with regard to winning the vote for women. It explains that suffrage is the focus of the paper, because, it is argued, once women had a political voice, other social reforms for women (such as the right to work, or the right to work for equal pay) could more easily follow. The writer then looks at how suffrage may be seen as the fundamental social reform that paved the way for the continuing reform of social conditions, and more especially for the continuing reform of social conditions for women. The writer also strongly asserts that it is also important to see it within the context of what women saw as important aspects of social reform, such as combating problems associated with industrialization and urbanization. The writer notes that while the suffrage movement was impacted by larger historical factors, such as the First World War, ordinary Canadianwomen played an important role in the fight for votes for women.
From the Paper "These missionary groupings were the most common alliances in the 1870s and 1880s, but these decades also saw the rise of somewhat more secular organizations, such as The Woman's Christian Temperance Union. These organizations have been described as "testaments to women's growing awareness of social, and particularly urban, problems" (Strong-Boag 89). Women hoped to work within these organizations to rehabilitate the degenerate and the poor - reflecting the common assumption that women were the morally superior sex (Strong-Boag). Indeed, many historians agree that the suffragists justified their fight to penetrate the public sphere by the argument that as women were morally superior, their presence in the public sphere would benefit society, due to the fact that the public sphere would be improved by the influence of what were seen as women's traditional virtues (Bacchi)."
Abstract The paper offers a feminist and sociological analysis of Canadianwomen that reflects the economic conditions and the psychological gender role allocations that have limited women to the household in a patriarchal Canadian society. The paper examines these facets of Canadian life and illustrates how one can see how women were up against immense odds when seeking entrance into a more independent role away from marriage and into the world of business. The paper explains that these new roles evolved from the 1950s into the modern era of the 1990s and the 21st century.
From the Paper "The basis of this sociological and feminist study on women in the workplace will analyze the historical progress of women in the family and economic structures that had limited them in the past. By offering new insights into the development of women workers in the Canadian business world, one can objectively rationalize the competence and competitive nature of women in relation to men. By realizing the past gender roles normatively associated with women in the household, working women have taken great steps in the past 25 years in becoming a competing force to males in a patriarchal business orientated system."
Abstract The paper relates that at the start of World War ll women were denied entry to positions in the workforce that were previously thought of as reserved only for men. Thus, the earning capacity of women was considerably lower than that of men and they were unable to accede to positions of economic or political power as well. The paper continues by highlighting that, as a result of the male task force being involved in fighting a war, vacancies in the work situation became available to Canadianwomen and thus it became apparent that women proved to be as efficient as men in a previous male-dominated areas. Encouraged by capitalism and the ruling powers and the press, Canadianwomen were now holding major positions which the government attempted unsuccessfully to reverse after the war. The paper concludes that WWI helped women realize their capabilities and achieve equality with their male counterparts.
From the Paper "In this analysis, it is important to bear in mind that women in Canada have always worked, in one way or another. Feminist scholars such as Bradbury have eloquently dismissed the myth that dual-income families are a new phenomenon, a product of the women's movement in the last few decades. In her analysis of working class families in the period from the 1860s to the 1890s - the time of the industrial revolution in Canada - Bradbury shows that even in that time, married Canadian women were actively involved in a broad range of income-generating activities, such as taking in boarders. At the same time, they were also expected to handle all domestic labour. Bradbury reproduces a cartoon showing a woman on her knees, doing the washing, while her husband eats dinner. The caption reads: "You complain, my poor husband, or your ten hours of labour. Yet I have been working for fourteen hours, and I have not yet finished my day." Bradbury also makes the point that women's labour was essential, and that if most families had relied on the husband's earnings alone, "poverty, even starvation, would have been chronic." Moreover, men would not have had the strength to labour at the factories for ten hours, and women would not have been well enough nourished to produce viable babies. In short, the "working class could not have reproduced itself."
Abstract This paper reviews the enormous strides that have been made by Canadianwomen in recent decades. It discusses how since the 1970s, the number of women attending graduate school, entering the professions and involving themselves in the political process has climbed steadily. The paper then examines how far women have come and whether or not more needs to be done to adequately represent females at the highest reaches of public policy.
Abstract This paper reviews three novels by Canadianwomen authors as a way to compare and contrast their writing styles, and how these styles work to convey the complex relations of mothers and daughters. All three stories, (Hetty Dorval, The Swamp Angel, The Fire-Dwellers) deal with issues of language, silence, and the value of symbols and metaphors to express what is often inexpressible for women. This essay explores these themes through the writing of the authors, Ethel Wilson and Margaret Laurence, who portray a relation of writer with subject, where the ambiguities of understanding women in society become a shared project of story and writing.
Abstract An argumentative speech about women's rights and status today. The author argues that even though women today theoretically have been given more power and say, in practice women still lack authority and equality to their counteractive male society.
From the Paper "A "feminist" speech, which won the national semi-finals of a public speaking competition, written on the subject "Votes for women - should the suffragettes have bothered"? It looks at the issues surrounding this ever topical and controversial subject, and many of the obstacles facing women, even in today's "equal" and permissive society."
Tags: differences, discrimination, equality, feminism, sexism, suffragettes, women
Abstract This paper discusses how prior to World War I, the traditional Canadian view of women wasn't much different than what it had been in most of the patriarchal world since time immemorial. Attitudes to changes in the political and social status of women were typically fearful and conservative, with women being regarded as inferior, even as 'non-persons'. It took many long years of struggle before old ideas were overthrown, and women were accepted as 'persons' in the public realm, but the issues were eventually resolved peacefully.
Abstract The paper discusses how Canadianwomen report more difficulties in attaining well-paid jobs, respect and equality in the workforce. The paper asserts that women should be treated equally in the workplace, men should take on household duties, women should have more than simply part-time opportunities open to them and childcare should be of a reasonable cost, so women can truly afford to work outside the home. The paper contends that a change in social values is needed to bring Canada into the 21st century.
From the Paper "While a strong feminist movement in the 1960s did move many Canadian women and their issues into the spotlight, and created new opportunities for women, women's work in Canada has seemed to stall since the 1990s (Phillips, et. al, 2000, p. 14). Another author reports, "Women in Canada earn an average 72.8% of men's earnings, dropping to 67.3% for self-employed women, and 53.8% for employed minority women. In the highest paid jobs (senior managers, lawyers, dentists, general practitioners) women earn an average 66.4% of men, and only 19.7% of women are in them" (Fenwick, 2004, p. 136). This continues to be a burgeoning problem in Canada, demoralizing Canadian women and giving their families far fewer opportunities for economic advancement and equality."
