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A century of women MPs, but gender parity still major issue

  • December 2021 marks a historic milestone in Canada’s Parliament, the 100th anniversary of the first woman MP being elected. But since Agnes Macphail’s campaign victory
Opinion | BY ELEANOR FAST AND KIM KELLY | December 8, 2021
MP Margaret Aitken; Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton; Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female Senator; and MP Ellen Fairclough, who became the first female federal cabinet minister, unveil a commemorative bronze bust of Agnes Macphail, the first woman elected to the House of Commons, on March 8, 1955. Duncan Cameron photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

A century of women MPs, but gender parity still major issue

Opinion | BY ELEANOR FAST AND KIM KELLY | December 8, 2021
  • December 2021 marks a historic milestone in Canada’s Parliament, the 100th anniversary of the first woman MP being elected. But since Agnes Macphail’s campaign victory

A century of women MPs, but gender parity still major issue

Opinion | BY ELEANOR FAST AND KIM KELLY | December 8, 2021
  • December 2021 marks a historic milestone in Canada’s Parliament, the 100th anniversary of the first woman MP being elected. But since Agnes Macphail’s campaign victory
MP Margaret Aitken; Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton; Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female Senator; and MP Ellen Fairclough, who became the first female federal cabinet minister, unveil a commemorative bronze bust of Agnes Macphail, the first woman elected to the House of Commons, on March 8, 1955. Duncan Cameron photograph courtesy of Library and Archives Canada
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