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Women in Federal and Provincial Legislatures and
Federal Courts, 2005
At the rate we are going ONE HUNDRED and SEVENTEEN Years is how long it will take for women to achieve equity in the Canadian House of Commons. That's 4 generations. At the rate we are going, it won't be until our great, great granddaughters are women that we'll have 50/50 in the House. It will be 2118. Here's how the math works: We elected the first woman, Agnes McPhail in 1921. We now have 62 women. It took 80 years to elect an additional 61 women. That's a rate of .7625 women a year. In order to have gender equity we would need 151 women in the house. That means an additional 89 women. At the rate of .7625 women per year, it would take 116.7 years to get 151 women elected. In 1943, Agnes MacPhail was one of two women first elected to the Ontario provincial parliament. Today, there are 18 women elected to Queen's Park. At that rate, it will take 123 years to get half the Ontario legislature. The first woman mayor was elected in 1951. At that rate, it will take us 165 years to achieve gender equity at the municipal level (that is mayors, reeves, wardens, not councillors). It will be 2166. Watch for updates on the facts that prove our case. Women in Canada are being left behind in the struggle for political equality. We'll keep you up to date on what's happening to women's voices in Parliament, legislatures and municipal councils across Canada. We'll also post useful studies and news we can gather of trends for women in politics in the United States, Europe and around the world. Tips, and contributions, most welcome.
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