Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights
Creator
McIvor, Sharon Donna
Aboriginal Women Unmasked: Using Equality Litigation to Advance Women's Rights
Focus on the sex equality rights of Aboriginal women in Canada. Drawing on her own struggle to have her children accorded Indian status, the author hightlights discriminatory provisions that persists in Bill C-31. She describes cases brought by Aboriginal, Inuit and Métis women's organizations to recognize their right to participate in shaping policies directed at them.
Creator
McIvor, Sharon Donna
La loi canadienne sur l'équité en matière d'emploi et les femmes
Creator
Chagnon, Rachel
Lamarche, Lucie
Tougas, Francine
La loi canadienne sur l'équité en matière d'emploi et les femmes
Based upon a study of the application and the latest revision of the Employment Equity Act, this article provides an update on current issues in the area of employment equity for women.
Creator
Chagnon, Rachel
Lamarche, Lucie
Tougas, Francine
Mothers, Fathers, and Naming: Reflections on the Law Equality Framework and Trociuk v. British Columbia (Attorney General)
Creator
Lessard, Helen
Mothers, Fathers, and Naming: Reflections on the Law Equality Framework and Trociuk v. British Columbia (Attorney General)
This article is about the intersection of the legal ordering of names, naming practices and birth registrations with equality rights discourses in Canada.
Creator
Lessard, Helen
Not My Sister
Creator
Lindberg, Tracey
Not My Sister
The author argues that identitfying and defining women's laws and roles in the context of an indigenous framework can inform and transform the way in which indigenous women, feminists and indigenous women who are feminists speak to each other both about law and how they critique Canadian legal theories.