The years of WW1 saw a great remarkable spread of women’s rights and female suffrage all over the world as well as in Canada. Female suffrage is the right of women to vote. Women at this time were treated differently from men, at least in voting rights. Especially, back then, women were considered to be inferior to men, but after many years of hard work and protest, women finally gained the same equality as men. Women’s rights in Canada were differentiated by three different periods of time, which are women’s rights before the war, during the war, and after the war. Before the war started, the husband or the father indirectly owned women and children. The laws made by Great Britain are the reason for these laws. Women did not have any property …show more content…
Until 1891, husbands were allowed by law to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than a man’s thumb and to lock them in a room if they wished. Education was not available to working class women but, at the end of the nineteenth century, some of the universities began to accept a few wealthy women to study degree courses like at Oxford University. However, the women at that time were educated separately from the …show more content…
War was considered more important than anything else and society didn’t care about gender as much. The campaign for women’s suffrage ceased militant activities and the suffragettes agreed to assist with the war effort. Women were needed to help with the war effort by filling the gaps left by the men who went to fight in the war. Back then women must do what they were told to do. Their role should reflect that of a “mother.” They must dress and act appropriately. Women were considered unequal to their male counterparts both legally and socially. But things started to change when the war broke out. Thousands of Canadian women spent their own time raising money for the war effort. Other women who couldn’t work in factories or in other jobs spent most of their time knitting scarves and socks for the soldiers who were fighting overseas. Women whose husbands, sons and brothers served in the war were given the right to