Women During the 1920s.

An explaination of what women were like and how they were treated during the 1920s Women During the 1920s Canadian women benefited from the courageous acts of several leaders who challenged the legal restrictions that limited woman's rights in this country. Many women such as the women in the Famous Five, like Emily Murphy, and Agnes Macphail were all in the "persons case" to make women's rights become equalized. Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Edwards, …

…similar declarations. The debate between whether women were qualified as women were not under the law, became a seesaw legal battle spanning more than a decade. Courageous acts of several leaders such as Emily Murphy,Agnes Macphail, and the people in The Famous Five, all challenged the legal restrictions in "the persons case" that limited women's rights in this country. Without their courageous acts, women would of never been treated respectfully as they do today.