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Such grievances include women's denial to the right to vote, the unfairness that a married woman gave control of her property to her husband and the lack of opportunity for women to take roles in active professions (medical, law, politics, etc). A women's suffrage movement had lasted roughly seventy years, with many famous suffragists in between such as "The National Women Suffrage Association" led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and they worked to amend the constitution to allow women to vote, which was originally inspired by the fifteenth amendment that allowed black men to vote. A famous Canadian women's suffragist was Emily Gowan Murphy (1868-1938) who was an author and social reformer. Murphy helped establish a court in Edmonton that deal with cases involving women, she was the first woman to serve in the court's first female judge and the first female magistrate within the British Empire.
Under the British North American Act, only "persons" were allowed to hold office in politics but women were not considered "persons" unless they committed a crime. Therefore, Nellie McClung (1873-1951) contested this in a court battle along with five other women (nicknamed "Famous Five") where Murphy being one of them questioned whether women were "persons" or not in 1927. Later on, the women activists challenged the Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King to have woman the right to be appointed to seats for senator. The "Famous Five" caught the attention of the Privy Council in England, the highest judicial authority in the British Empire, ruled in their favor in 1929. This ruling enabled women to serve in the Canadian Senate. It was on October 18th, 1929 that Judicial Committee declared their support for women. "The Exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more than ours . To those who ask why the word ["persons"] should include females the obvious answer is why should it not? - (Counter Points exploring Canadian issues pg.