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A 9 page paper which examines women in Canada based on A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980, edited by Joy Parr. No additional sources cited.
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due to similar factors. From around 1945 to 1980 the entire society was going through many changes, changes that started with the recovery of a society from the Great Depression
and WWII. Women in Ontario, according to Joy Parrs work A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980, went through many different changes as they slowly, and sometimes aggressively, emerged from the
traditional or historical family unit. The following paper examines the similarities and the differences experienced by women in Ontario, according to Parrs work, from 1945 to 1980. Women
in Canada 1945-1980 In the beginning of Parrs work she essentially lays out many of the facts involved with women and their roles/place in society from 1945 to 1980. She
notes that, "For the first generation of Canadian feminists in the early twentieth century, women were defined starkly by what they were not. They were not men, and therefore they
were not voters, candidates for public office, professionals, or soldiers" (Parr, 1995; 3). She indicates that Ontario truly desired, and believed in, a future that did not have the financial
suffering of the past and with the 1940s came a boom in marriage and birth as people set out to find a more prosperous lifestyle. But, that ideal was not
always the reality as many people rented homes, lived in homes that were in great need of repair and essentially lived in harsh conditions. All the while there was the
belief in domesticity as the best way to approach being a woman. "Domestic metaphors, which in the late 1940s and early 1950s proclaimed the promise of the peace, cloaked all
womens activities" (Parr, 1995; 5). As is the case with any group in a society there is not just one single type of experience. Not all of any given
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