Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953-84

by Dominique Clement

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Cl?ment traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation, demonstrating how governments inhibit the application of their own laws, and how it falls to social movements to create, promote, and enforce these laws. Focusing on British Columbia - the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex - Cl?ment documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774827505
• ISBN13: 9780774827508
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"