HIST-261 Lecture 12: Changes in Canada in the 1960s
10 Aug 2020
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These changes also coincided with second wave feminism, the move for greater equality for women in various facets of society, from the political sphere to the workplace, to the home. The late 1960s in canada, as throughout the western world, saw the emergence of a new women"s movement. In the late 1960s, discovering that "sisterhood is powerful," women from vancouver to halifax began forming groups such as the vancouver women"s caucus and the montr al women"s. At first, many were consciousness-raising groups, but they quickly turned to concrete action, providing abortion services, health centres, feminist magazines, day-cares, shelters for battered women and rape crisis centres, and organizing for equal pay. By the end of the 1960s, canadian society had begun to adjust to the rebirth of a major social movement. Finally, the 1960s brought the emergence of the modern environmental movement.
