Women in Canadian Politics

Women in Canadian Politics

Introduction

Canada is a country of freedom and opportunity, diversity and the major historical moments. Canadian history is valuable because it helped shape Canada in the great country it is today. It's amazing what the impact of certain events have had on our country, and even in the worst of times, there was always a good result at the end. Events like the great stock market crash in 1929, where many people were in poverty, or the time of hippies and activists, a time when freedom and individuality, and fought for the request. Moreover, people like Terry Fox who made a big difference in itself a proof of great determination and strength, as well as soldiers who fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the most important battles and bigger achievements. The first woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada was Agnes Macphail, the 1921 election. Although women's representation in politics has increased since then, and several political parties have highlighted the growing number of candidates as a political organization and no political party in Canada to date has achieved gender parity in the number of candidates.

Discussion

Political parties may have reached a balance in your chosen group, but only as a byproduct of the collapse of a part - for example, in the 1993 elections, the Progressive Conservative Party achieved gender parity in their chosen group but only to the election of two members of Parliament and the loss of official party status. On several occasions, the parties also had 100 percent of the women in your group, but again, only under a group composed of only one or two members. Given the success of Women's Suffrage movement occurred between 1880-1920, the "second wave" women's movement has become a center for analysis and debate. Although the representation of women has gradually improved over the past 50 years, an imbalance of power in proportion to the women participating in the political structures of Canada remains a reality.

"Women constitute more than half of voters in Canada, but they represent less than one quarter of the legislators, ministers, senior officials and judges." In addition, most female politicians, with some notable, still concentrated in specific areas of policy as a logical extension of the traditional concerns of women's health, welfare, education, culture, family and consumer . "Despite these areas of" soft policy "to give women the opportunity to influence public policies that often lead to dead ends of the possible rise of women in parliamentary positions in the economic and foreign affairs. For men against the elite "specialized in the most prestigious areas of finance, justice, finance, commerce and industry. "The male stereotype fields allow politicians to ascend to political power and influence.

In doing so, indirectly taxing most of the women tried to enter and progress in a political institution that is male. Despite these challenges single women's groups, both internal and external, continue to defend and strengthen efforts to put more women in positions of ...