When in 1927 the Canadian Supreme court decided that the term “persons” used in Section 24 of the British North America Act did not include women. The Canadian Court Up stipulated that the term "person" did not apply to women, alleging that when the British North America Act was signed, jurisprudence did not consider women as "qualified persons." If the Constitution had included women in this definition, it would have been duly noted. Before this point, although women had the right to vote in many provinces they were not legally recognized as people and they did absolutely lose any rights they may have had once married. The Famous 5 appealed the ruling in front of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of London, which reversed the verdict of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Susan B. Anthony was an advocated dresser to help the reform of women. At this time she cut all her hair and wore a bloomer costume for a year. After getting ridiculed and criticized for a year she finally decided that her dress code detracted from the other causes that she supported (susanbanthonyhouse.org). Then continuing in 1853 Anthony began to campaign for all of the women’s property rights. She went to New York and began speaking at meetings, getting signatures and also lobbying the state legislature.
Judges, lawyers, and other members of the legal community all over Canada believe that infanticide should not be used as a legal defense. Isabel Grant, a law professor who specializes in mental health and criminal law at the University of British Columbia argues that infanticide should not be used as a defense even though a killing like this is less culpable than murder. “The vast majority of women would risk their lives to save their baby and in these cases something goes terribly wrong” (Grant, 2010). Grant argues that even though a woman suffers from a mental condition, it is not fair to be more lenient to the mother when treatment is so easily attainable in a country such as Canada. She believes that the mothers that use infanticide as a legal defense basically use that as an excuse in order to avoid a life time sentence in jail.
One of the authors’ major contentions was the sex differentiations and restrictions people had. For example, when John Winthrop was reelected on October 1636, he found out about Anne’s meetings at her house towards the topic of Familism and sponsored a court order forbidding anyone to entertain strangers for more than three weeks, pointing it mainly to new immigrants from England who had similar view points with Anne. They expected everyone to follow the same religion and not have anyone rebel towards that nor influence others. Many women, along with Anne were persecuted and fined for speaking their opinions and being female just gave Winthrop and other male colonists more ambition to persecute them. 3-Conclusion A major strength about this article is the amount of detail it has for each of the story lines about Anne Hutchinson and her journey since she was little.
Susan B. Anthony also opposed abortion, which she saw as another instance of a "double standard" imposed upon women. In the nineteenth century, the decision to undergo an abortion was very often decided by men. There were none of the standard contraceptive options available to women today. Antibiotics had yet to be invented, and abortion was a life threatening and unsanitary procedure for the woman. Anthony wrote that "when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged,” Susan B. Anthony encouraged women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification.
Women (228-231) • Historically, women were considered property • No voting or political rights • Until the early twentieth century when women in Canada were excluded from holding political office, sitting in the Senate and becoming judges. • They were not considered “people” until 1929 • Case of Edwards v. Attorney General for Canada is proof that our Supreme Court wasn’t even ready to consider women as a person. • Emily Murphy, Canada’s first female judge, was denied a spot in the Senate. • Murphy and four other women, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Nellie McClung, sent a reference (that is, a question concerning a constitutional issue) to the Supreme Court. • The Governor-General-in-Council would then
After the death of Mr. Mellema, Nyai Ontosoroh's master, Nyai was served papers from the Amsterdam District Court that threatened to take away everything she had built in her master's name. Engineer Maurits Mellema and his mother Amelia had claimed the rights over the wealth and property of the late Mr. Herman Mellema. That property included Nyai's daughter and Minke's wife Annelies, because she was determined to be legally under age. All of the politics involved in the emotional and legal struggle that ensued had never before been traversed in the Indies. The result of the trial was complete injustice, yet predictable.
The issue of women in political office is one that we face today, not so much at the lower levels of political offices but in the highest office, the presidential office. “Having deprived her of this right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides” (2). Even today, people discriminate about women holding high office positions. The issue of women voting was one that women had to battle and finally won in the 1930’s. “He has permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise”
Gender and Hockey Submitted to: Jason Wilson Date: Monday, November 11, 2013 Submitted by: Edward Jimenez 0810632 Gender and Hockey In society in the past, women and men were both seen differently. Women were unable to play sports and discriminated from participating in any type of sports. They were often seen as housewives, cleaners, and mothers who raise their children, while men dominated. Women were often discriminated from the sports world, whereas men were the ones to show off their personality to be “masculine” where they work and provide the income for the family. Following World War 2, it was acceptable for women to participate and compete in
In 1996 the University of Kabul reportedly had several thousand women students while thousands of professional women worked in different capacities in the city. When the Taliban toke over, women were not allowed to attend school and others have been forced to leave their jobs. The Taliban had issued edicts forbidding women from working outside the home, except in limited circumstances in the medical field. Hardest hit were the 30,000 widows in Kabul and others elsewhere in the country, who are the sole providers of their family. Women and girls were not allowed to appear outside the home unless wearing a head to toe garment called the burqa.