Eighty years ago – on October 18, 1929 – history was made in Canada in the fight for women's rights. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England, then the appeals court for the Supreme Court of Canada, ruled that women were legally "persons."
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2 comments:
Kind of a bitter sweet anniversary isn't it? Great that they were recognized as "persons" sad that it was not always so.
This is a great day to commemorate, but there is one issue: not ALL women were considered persons. WHITE women were. Non whites, aboriginals would wait years/decades for their rights.
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