HIST 3533 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Visible Minority, Heterosexism, Political Evolution
6 May 2015
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I introduction to women"s history tackling theory. Sept. 16 new approaches, methods, and how we got here. Introduction, rethinking canada: the promise of women"s history, 6th edition, editors, Mona gleason, tamara myers, adele perry, (don mills, on: oxford university press: [hereafter rethinking canada], pp. Today, women in canada live longer, get married later and less often , have fewer children and are more likely to live in same sex relationship than ever before. More same sex couples are female rather than male. 2009 more women in paid work force than men for first time. Rate of election to federal government is another important indicator of women"s place in a changing society. Lone mothers are likely to be poor as well as first nations. Women who have recently immigrated tend to have higher levels of education that chadian born women , but their rates of unemployment remain 6% higher than canadian born women.
