One of the women’s greatest gains was to getting a better education. Women that got the better education usually got a job that had higher pay then the conventional jobs that the women had done.
“By 1900, 250 women were enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and affiliated colleges of University of Toronto, 117 at Queen’s University, and 17 at McMaster.”1 The women who were enrolled in arts soon got a better job. These better jobs helped the women get a better job which got them a better standard of living. Better standard living …show more content…
Cook, McLean, O’Rourke, Framing Our Past p. 213-214
3. Cook, McLean, O’Rourke, Framing Our Past p. 214
As the women progressed through life, the women knew that they can’t work with just lower paying jobs. So women decided to get better education and which then they got better jobs in the workplace. The better paying jobs got them further in life. With the money they had, the women usually bought products for themselves. With the better education, they soon were better educated about sex. But there were ones that were not so lucky.
“Many of the women were poorly treated as they were physically or sexually abused” 4
With that being said, women often did not have the right to choose to have sex or not. Since majority of the women were still not educated, they often had suffrages. One woman named Idola Saint-Jean stated:
“Tomorrow the Legislature will for the fifth time receive a bill demanding suffrage for the women of this province.”