Great Western Garment Company workroom, Edmonton, Alberta. Photo courtesy Glenbow Museum.

Start your research with an encyclopedia article.  The Canadian Encyclopedia provides a variety of articles relating to key events and individuals who have shaped the role of women over Canada's history.  For an overview, start with the article titled "The Status of Women."  Here is the link: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/status-of-women/
Check out our books on our Google Shelf:
Canadian Studies in the New Millenium  See Chapter 7 "Women's Issues."
Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America.
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics.

Recommended Sources Available for Free Online

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"Canadian Women and the Second World War" - a 37 page booklet by Ruth Roach Pierson, author of “They’re Still Women After All: The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood ."

Veterans Affairs' Women at War web project.

Statistics Canada's Canadian Yearbook Historical Collection  Browse by Topic  (Note that these articles provide links to statistical charts and graphs.) 

See Statistics Canada Wages and Working Conditions for a comparison of male and female employees' wages between 1910 and 1975.  Scroll down to chart E418:  Annual Earnings in manufacturing industries, production and other workers by sex Canada 1905, 1910, 1917, to 1975

Statistics Canada Tables on Occupations

Check Ebsco Host Grade 9 to Adult, a database from Ebsco specializing in articles with a Canadian perspective.  (You will need a login and password if accessing from home.)

Featured Articles
Frances, Raelene, Linda Kealey, and Joan Sangster. "Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980." Labour / Le Travail 38, (Fall96 1996): 54-89. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed January 28, 2015).

Crompton, Susan, and Michael Vickers. "One Hundred Years Of Labour Force. (Cover Story)." Canadian Social Trends 57 (2000): 2. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.



  

Check out our books on our Google Shelf:
Canadian Studies in the New Millenium  See Chapter 7 "Women's Issues."
Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America.
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics.