Women’s rights

During the 1870s Canadian women began what would become the women’s reform movement and started to organize associations to counter the inequalities suffered by women under the Canadian governmental and judicial systems. They demanded recognition of their rights and were increasingly vocal about their needs and their place in society, despite the degrees of indifference or opposition they faced. First-wave feminists became involved in advocating, among other issues, the rights of women to higher education, to earn an independent living, to vote, and, in the case of married women, to control their own property.