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employment discrimination based on sex: San Francisco County Superior Court: 2015 Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney: hiring preference to veterans over non-veterans: Supreme Court of the United States: 1979 R v Sullivan: status of a fetus as a person, with implications for women's rights: Supreme Court of Canada: 1991 Rajender v.
Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) rights are some of the most extensive in the world. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Same-sex sexual activity, in private between consenting adults, was decriminalized in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal ...
Women and Gender Equality Canada. Women and Gender Equality Canada ( WAGE; French: Femmes et Égalité des genres Canada (FEGC) ), known as Status of Women Canada from 1976 to 2018, is a department of the Government of Canada. Previously an agency under the Department of Canadian Heritage, it gained department status after a vote in December ...
Under the heading of "Equality Rights" this section states: 15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
v. t. e. Transgender rights in Canada, including procedures for changing legal gender and protections from discrimination, vary among provinces and territories, due to Canada's nature as a federal state. [ 1] According to the 2021 Canadian census, 59,460 Canadians identify as transgender. [ 2]
Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
By 2015, every Canadian province and territory had included similar changes to their discrimination laws. In 2017, Canada passed Bill C-16 which formally recognized non-binary gender people and granted them protection under the law towards discrimination on the grounds of "gender identity" and "gender expression." [24]
Canada Safeway Ltd. [1989] Bliss v Canada (AG) [1979] 1 S.C.R. 183 is a famous Supreme Court of Canada decision on equality rights for women under the Canadian Bill of Rights. The Court held that women were not entitled to benefits denied to them by the Unemployment Insurance Act during a certain period of pregnancy.