18-10-2024 18:10 via calgary.ctvnews.ca

Persons Day celebrations to take place at Famous 5 monument

Thanks to the perseverance of five Alberta women known as the Famous 5, a historic legal win took place on October 18, 1929, marking critical progress in gender equality in Canada. The Persons case (Edwards v. A.G. of Canada) was a constitutional ruling that confirmed women were 'persons', and could therefore work in the House of Commons and Senate. This decision did not include all women, such as Indigenous women and women of Asian heritage and descent, according to the Government of Canada. Th
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