Rural Life :1900-1930

Feminism early 1900s

Rural Life :1900-1930

• Rural Life:• Life in rural areas wasn’t a bad life• Farmers profit from selling products to cities• Clean and clean air• SLOWLY gaining same luxuries as cities– Newspapers– Roads for cars– Mail order catalogues– Radio

Feminism: Women take it upon themselves to have their

rights recognized 1900-1930

Feminism : 1900-1930• Women do not have the same rights as men at

the beginning of the 1900s• Working for a lower salary than men 40%-

60% less• Women working in textiles, food, shoes…• Personal services like hair dressing• Even the church did not give the same rights

to women

Feminism : 1900-1930

• The biggests aspirations of women teachers and nurses

• Cannot become doctors, lawyers… « liberal professions »

• Many married women are housewives only• Many women are under the control of their

husbands... Personal, financial

Le réformisme et le féminisme au Québec: 1900-1930

• Reformist women in Quebec wanted:

• Better working conditions

• Better public health• Pasturized milk for

babies• Get rid of pollution and

alcohol in cities

‘Goutte de Lait’ Clinic

Reformisim and feminism in Québec: 1900-1930

• Women started to gain ground:

• Bikes as a proper mode of transportation

• Education more accessible for women

• Special clinics for women and babies

• Prohibition.... No

Feminist advancements

• 1908: collège Marguerite Bourgeoys for women school with superior education

• WWI women have the right to vote on conscription

• 1921 right to vote in federal elections• 1929 women in senat• 1929 Women have the right to spend money

how they want

Important person

Thérèse Casgrain:• Campaignes for

womens’ right to vote in provincial elections a right that only comes around in 1940

• Reaction towards womens’ rights in Quebec–A society with men who wanted to

keep control–Traditionnal imgae didn’t change

much