In the 1880s
women couldn’t have some of the same occupations as the men. For example
lawyers, doctors, business, in parliament, own stores etc. If women were married they most likely didn’t
work. Single women were expected to be either teachers, nurses, servants, seamstress, work in factories etc. . The average salary for each occupation were; male teachers was
$778 dollars a year, female teachers equalled to $358, men in factories $129,
women in factories $116 a year, post office (men) $421 a year, cleaning ladies
$324, unskilled stockyard labor $547. Women couldn’t be elected in federal or provincial
government until late the 1900s. Girls could only attend elementary school and
secondary school, not post-secondary. The University of Toronto didn’t except
women until late 1880s. Even after they were accepted they were still taunted
by male students and professors. The average salary in a factory for women was
six dollars a week, 75 cents a day. They worked 10 hours a day, 60 hours a week
with a total pay of the year around $212 a year. They had a one hour break with
a small dinner included. The youngest workers they had in the factories were
nine years old. Women were denied higher
degree of education, for example in medicine; they were denied access on
learning it. Women worked very hard for girls and women to be able to do the
things they wanted to do in life, like getting a proper education at a school
of your choice, or getting a good paid job to support their families.