How the Farmer Women Gained the Right to Vote

[T]he barriers that women faced were overcome through the use of newspapers as a vehicle to debate suffragist issues, through various groups such as the WCTU organizing and motivating suffragists, and through the removal of the Conservative premier which posed a stubborn barrier in obtaining the vote. Newspapers granted women the power to communicate their opinion and invite discussion, highlighting key rights and freedoms women were denied on the basis of their gender and rallying women across the province to fight for this change. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, among other groups, providing women with the opportunity to convene and plan events to spread awareness surrounding this issue; this was effectively done as exemplified through the popularity the Political Equality League managed to amass for this issue. Lastly, the change in government provided women with the opportunity to fairly prove themselves in why they deserved the right to vote.
How the Farmer Women Gained the Right to Vote

Ioana David

Grade 11

Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute 
Waterloo, Ontario

Women's issues have an inspiring capacity to challenge society and push it to do better. Many women in my life today are my role models.

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