Throughout Adelaide Hoodless's life she has made many contributions to Canada. One of the major ones was that she organized the first school for women, Household Science School, which opened in September 1895 (Adelaide Hunter Hoodless 1875-1910, n.d. pg.1). She believed that it was unfair only boys could go on to higher standards while girls had to stay home and do household work all day. So with this, Adelaide also became the co-founder of many organizations such as the National Council of Women (NCW), Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) (Stamp, 03/25/08, pg.1). She also nationalized the Young Women’s Christian Association also known as Y.W.C.A and was the founder of Women’s Institutes (ibib).
Nellie McClung: a Canadian feminist, politician, author, and social activist who was one of the “Famous Five” Alberta women who initiated and won the person’s case to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act. Beyoncé: is considered world’s most famous female artist and a great role model for young women today. She believes women should be considered equal and treated with fairness, empowers females through her actions and music and believes in equality and respect for
In 1867, a Canadian woman calls Emily Howard Stowe and her Toronto Women’s Literary Club started a fight for women’s suffrage. After four decades, the Canada Elections Act finally passed women are allowed to vote in 1918. Today Canadian women’s voting right is protecting by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. Woman have no difference with men. They
Rosie the Riveter Revisited Women, The War, and Social Change Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987 Author Sherna Berger Gluck is Director Emeriti of the Oral History Program at California State University, Long Beach. She has concentrated most of her academic career developing and endorsing what is now officially recognized as an individual discipline (Women’s Oral History). Gluck completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College (the Great Books College of Chicago) in Illinois and completed advanced degree work at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.
After this, Castillo felt to better her life for her and her son so she went back to school. She received her masters in Latin American and Carribean studies and minored in secondary education. After graduating she went to teach English as a second language. She also taught Mexican and Mexican American history in community colleges throughout Chicago where she grew up. She taught feminist journal writing for several years and became a feminist activist herself.
Three years after writing the book in 1966, Friedan helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW). (Hennessee, 1999) This was the first major organization since the 1920’s women rights movement. (Hennessee, 1999) Under Friedan leadership the NOW organization worked to gain political reforms to obtain legal equality for women. It was also successful in a number of benefits that catered to women. It aided in the implementation of the Title VII of the
Near the late eighteenth century to early twentieth century, women in Canada were continuing to be seen in terms of their destinies as wives and mothers. No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women 1771-1938, is a book of a compilation of diaries and letters providing an insight into the lives of Nova Scotia women. This essay looks at the relationship between family and religion in the lives of these women. Even though these diaries and letters comprise between the years 1771 – 1938, this paper will cover letters and diaries between the years 1869 – 1881. Mary MacDougall MacDoland, Annie Rogers Butler, and Margaret Pottinger Connell have a lot of comparison, such as religion, dedication to their husband and family, but this paper will focus on family and domestic life; despite their similarities they also had differences, for instance Annie’s approach towards men, Mary’s beliefs of Native Indians and Margaret’s role towards the new era of Industrialization.
I had the opportunity to interview a registered nurse who I have trained in the past when she was new to our department, but now I admire and view as a mentor. My interview was with a forty-two year veteran diploma graduate registered nurse who is but one year from retirement. She has worked at several different hospitals and in several different departments through out her career. I enjoyed hearing her experiences and related to a lot of the past and could understand what nursing has been, how it has moved forward, and what the future might hold for nurses. A time ago nursing was viewed as a “woman’s job”.
She taught Public school for 43 years in D.C and was also President of the Board of Education. She opened up the door for other African- American women in Mathematics. She fought racial segregation within the school system and also supported a lawsuit to desegregate the school system. Birth Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was born to parents Dr. William Lofton and Mrs. Lavina Day Lofton in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 1890. Her father was a prominent dentist and a financial supporter of black institutions and charities and her mother was active in the Catholic Church.
Lillian D. Wald was born on March 10, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A firm believer in nonviolence, she helped lead the first women peace march in 1914.She was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Lillian Wald was from a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an ophthalmic merchant). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York where she attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was repudiated, as the school thought she was too young at 16. In 1889, she joined New York Hospital's School