Constance Backhouse
LEGAL SCHOLAR AND HISTORIAN
Constance Backhouse is Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where she teaches, researches and writes about legal history, human rights, critical race studies, and feminist legal issues. She co-founded the Feminist History Society dedicated to publishing books about the history of Second Wave Canadian feminism.
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Pay equity and childcare, long recognized as essential to women’s economic security, remain incomplete promises. Legal scholar Constance Backhouse and pay equity pioneer Mary Cornish reflect on both historic progress and unfinished work.
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