The First Steps on the Road to Equality

Before the war, woman’s roles had always been in the domestic sphere: raising children and tending the family home. The suffragette movement of the post-Great War years had begun to challenge that concept, but only when women began to hold jobs and support themselves did Canada begin to achieve real gender equality. In the decades after the end of the Second World War, women began to receive equal pay for equal work, acceptance into the labour force, and the reformation of many laws discriminating against them. These changes, a product of the 1960s, were made possible by changes made during WWII.