Woman's Century was the official organ of the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC), published in Toronto between 1913 and 1921.
[1] The magazine often reported on the British Dominions Woman Suffrage Union (BDWSU), an important empire-wide organization.
[6] The NCWC said that the greater public responsibility that they were advocating for women was a natural extension of their role as mothers, an argument now known as "maternal feminism".
She wrote,[9] The recent debate in Federal Parliament on the proposed amendments for the Criminal Code has brought to the fore the old, old injustice of the legalized double standard of morals.
The long-looked-for bill to amend the clause re crimes against morality has been brought in, but it falls far short of the oft-expressed desires of the organized women ...
It does not recognize that there should be one standard of morals for both sexes ... As I think of the proposed injustice, my blood is so hot and my indignation so seething that I can hardly write these words that you will read.
[11] In late summer 1917 there was a report that the suffragists Laura Hughes and Harriet Dunlop Prenter had equated suffrage and pacifism in Ontario.
She wrote that the "National Union and Ontario Equal Franchise Association have again and again expressed themselves as repudiating utterly any question of premature peace.
Women's Century again wishes very definitely to repudiate all utterances ... or any pacifist propaganda, and to reiterate once again that it stands for a Union Government, Conscription and Winning the War".