Tuesday, March 8, 2011

100th Anniversary of International Women's Day

Happy International Women's Day

Here are 1o Influential Canadian Women from the past Century:
(Selected by the Toronto Star Editorial Board)

  1. Nettie McClung (1873-1951), suffragist
  2. Elizabeth Bagshaw (1881-1982), doctor
  3. Laura Sabia (1916-1996), feminist and social activist
  4. Doris Anderson (1921-2007), journalist, social activist
  5. June Callwood (1924-2007), journalist, healthcare activist
  6. Rosemary Brown (1930-2003), politician
  7. Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941- ), singer, painter, activist
  8. Nancy Greene Raine (1943- ), athlete
  9. Roberta Bondar (1945- ), astronaut
  10. Louise Arbour (1947- ), judge
I would also add:
  1. Jane Doe (?), legal activist
  2. Irshad Manji (1968- ), author, journalist, activist
There are many other Canadian women, not all necessarily famous, who could be on this list. Who would you add?
Great book: 100 Canadian Heroines, Merna Forster, 2004 (920.720971)

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  1. JaxMarch 10, 2011 at 7:47 AM

    What's interesting about the FIT camp for teenage girls in the summer is that the guys are livid because it gives an unfair advantage to the girls. As they see it, the girls get more "help". Ridiculous, but you know how competitive it is. Guys try for a decade to get hired and don't have anything like this for them. The smarter guys have a better understanding of the point of the camp...to expose young girls to the possibilities of entering a male-dominated career...not just firefighting.

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