CELEBRATE INSPIRING WOMEN
CELEBRATE INSPIRING WOMEN: NOMINATE OUTSTANDING LEADERS, INNOVATORS AND CHANGEMAKERS
BY CHARLENE ADAM
The Free Press has a history of following Manitoba leaders and chronicling their stories. Many of our articles have covered women in key leadership roles.
Since 1874, we have written about the campaign to attain the women’s vote, followed those who fought alongside men in the 1919 General Strike, and reviewed women writers who have made the list of the greatest Canadian Shields ring a bell? And in 2007, Margo Goodhand took the helm of the Free Press as its first woman editor. History, however, is an odd thing. We assume that it’s linear. Once a right is granted there’s no going back. But this isn’t how the real world works. Women in other countries have gone from near parity with men to being thrust back into second class citizenship when a war is lost or new regime preys upon a country. In 2025, many women around the world remain barred from voting, getting an education or even driving; and fear of body autonomy runs rampant. writers of all time. Do Margaret Laurence, Miriam Toews or Carol
From top to bottom: Margaret Laurence. SUPPLIED PHOTO Telephone operators, dubbed ‘hello girls’ at the time, were the first to walk out on May 15, 1919. SUPPLIED PHOTO
CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 19
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