Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
10 May 2012
Women
Saudi Arabia is one of the last hold-
countries that does not allow women to vote; elsewhere in the Arab world females are making political progress
For three hundred years, women have sought
better treatment and recognition for who they
are rather being defined by a male-
While women have made enormous strides in
the last two generations, but there’s
still a gap between male and female salaries
In the 1960s, women began campaigning for changes
to laws that placed them in a secondary status to men
Polygamy Ban Upheld by B.C. Court
It’s against the law in Canada to have more
than one spouse at the same time.
It’s called polygamy, and it’s a crime
Women in Muslim Chechnya Forced into Marriage
Under the watchful eye of President Ramzan Kadyrov once-
Women Oppressed in many Countries
While women in advanced democratic societies can celebrate many victories on the march to equality, their sisters elsewhere suffer terrible oppression
The United Nations says that women begin to
achieve real equality with men when they
cross the threshold 40 percent of elected positions
Nordic countries trounce the rest of the
world in delivering the closest level of
equality between men and women