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women in india
Joseph Borstein November 29, 2000 Gandhi's India Paper #3 The Conflict of Women in 20th Century India Throughout recorded history, women the world over have been held to different standards than men. They have been consistently oppressed in nearly all aspects of life, from political to

Women's Sufferage
WOMEN'S SUFFERAGE The traditional view of women in society was to stay at home, clean, raise children , and to help with the family farm. This view started to change around the late 19th century and during the industrial revolution. Male domination kept women at home but in the early 19th centur

Early women immigrating to Canada was generated by a network of

emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada's

attraction's to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy

farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from

Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe.

Canada's first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869

reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying

which classes of immigrants should be admitted but , merely that

the "governor" could prohibit the landing of pauper or destitute

immigrants at any Canadian port.

The Chinese, who were arriving in large numbers to build the

railway, were a special target of fear and suspicion. An act passed

in 1885 to "restrict and regulate" Chinese immigration, was later

complemented by head taxes designed to discourage Chinese

immigration. It wasn't until the 1960's that regulations and

restriction to Chinese immigration were completely lifted.

The 19th century closed with a world wide depression and a slow

down of immigration to the West. But all that changed in 1895,

when Clifford Sifton was appointed as Minister of the Interior at

the start of an economic recovery. Sifton believed that "a stalwart

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