LAWS 2301 Chapter Notes -Natural Justice, Rationality, Socialist Feminism
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Difference approach to gender focuses on gender disparities and advocates different (protective) treatment for women. Sameness approach to gender advocates the same treatment for men and women based on gender neutrality. The path to gender equality lies in eradicating society s use of gender differences to keep women in an inferior political status. The british north america act of 1867 stipulated that only persons could vote, be appointed senators, or become lawyers and judges. The status of women as persons was won in the courts in. In the 1960s, during a divorce-boom, the hidden costs of women were shown. Ownership of matrimonial property was legally interpreted as established through direct. Women found that upon divorce, they were not necessarily entitled to assets acquired during marriage. With security in terms of equality that was enshrined in the canadian charter of rights and freedoms in the 1980s, the efforts of liberal reform appear to have been successful.