Sep 18, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
At the end of the 20th century, after 25 years of offering advice to government on gender equality, often in response to emerging issues in government and in the community, the members of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women decided to develop a framework for...
Sep 11, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
We are asking each current staffperson with the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women to choose a milestone year to reflect on among these “50 Ways to Achieve Equality” posts. Today’s significant year is selected by MIchelle Jay, the Council’s full-time...
Sep 4, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, News and Views
Just over ten years ago, in 2014, PEI celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference that paved the way to Confederation in 1868. In those year before the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, settler-colonial milestones were...
Aug 27, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025
There are few conversations about gender equality – or diversity, equity, and inclusion more generally – that don’t include a discussion about the need to start early, with young children, to instill in them values of respect and human rights. In...
Aug 20, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
Over the years, the most-requested publication of the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women was Moving On: A Practical Guide for Women Leaving a Relationship. The publication is no longer in print because up-to-date help and resources are available through more...
Aug 13, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
From 1975 to 1982, each Minister Responsible for the Status of Women was a man. In 1982, Leone Bagnall was appointed as the first female Minister Responsible for the Status of Women by Premier James Lee in 1982. She went on to become and was the first female Leader of...
