7. Canadian Labour Force Participation Rates
All Men, All Women, Married Women
1961
All Men: 81.1% All Women: 24.4% All Married Women: 20.7%
Women were 29.6% of the total labour force.
Women earned 55% of what men earned.
Statistics Canada: Historical Labour Force Statistics cat.no. 71-201, 1995
8.
9. 1964 USA
Ruby Doris Smith Robinson presented
"The Position of Women in SNCC,"
denouncing the treatment of women
civil rights workers in
The Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee.
Stokely Carmichael responded,
"The only position for women in SNCC is prone."
10. "There seems to be an almost suicidal urge
for militant feminists to abandon all make-up,
to wear square heels, to deny the joys of flirtation
so that a very attractive young female feels compelled
to argue that she cannot accept a corsage because it
somehow degrades her as a "person".
Such a corsage does not deny a woman's capabilities.
It merely accepts and asserts the glorious, inescapable fact –
a fact that the truly successful women does not try to escape –
that off the job at least, there is nothing like a dame.
Equality, yes - unisex no." The Vancouver Sun 31 October 1969
Editorial response to a demonstration (24 October 1969)
at the Vancouver Manpower Office, protesting job segregation and unequal pay.
11.
12.
13. The RCMP opened the file "Women's
Liberation Groups — Canada" on May 13,
1969.
The file identifies Singer Rita McNeil, a
member of the Toronto Women's Caucus as
"She's the one who composes and sings
women's lib songs,"