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Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee fonds
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Women and the law in Nova Scotia

Item is a revised edition of Women and the Law in Nova Scotia published in 1972, and covers a range of legal issues affecting women in Nova Scotia, including marriage, abortion, rape, maternity leave benefits, tenancy law etc. It was written by Susan Perly with research and discussion by the Women and the Law Pamphlet Revision Committee: Deborah Dostal, Elizabeth Glenister, Elizabeth Lennon, Susan Perly and Judith Wouk.

Transcript of remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and the Status of Women

Item is a transcript of the remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and the Status of Women. Honourable Bill MacEachern gave the remarks at a public meeting with the Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee at the Halifax Regional Vocation School.

Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee fonds

  • MS-11-4
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1982
Fonds mainly consists of the publications, correspondence, meeting minutes, news releases, newsletters, newspaper clippings and reports of the Nova Scotia Women’s Action Committee.

Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee.

National Action Committee on the Status of Women

File includes meetings and workshops materials, memorandums, press releases, and stickers of the 50th Anniversary of the Persons Case, a case of five women from Alberta (Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby and Henrietta Muir Edwards) who fought and won the right for women in Canada to be officially deemed "persons" under the law.

Maritime women's access handbook

Item is a book complied, edited and published by Reel Life, a women's media collective, from resource information they collected during a tour of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick screening and distributing films, videotapes, slides and women's art. "S. Sherwin, Philosophy Dept." is written in ink on the front cover.

Activities

This series consists of records relating to different activities the committee had been involved in, including abortion debates, day care, education, pay equity, occupational health and safety, and unemployment.
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