Linda considers the persistence of present-day misogyny, then speaks with <a href="https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Authors/V/Vlaskalic-Daniela" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daniela Vlaskalic about her co-written play, <em>The Drowning Girls</em></a><em>, </em>which features the women who were victims of a turn-of-the-century serial killer. It was such a famous case, even Agatha Christie mentioned it in one of her novels. To set the stage - pun intended - for this play, Linda outlines the legal and historical situation for women in Canada - obtaining<a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wartime-elections-act" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> the right to vote was a bare minimum</a>., but even <a href="https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/history-of-women-and-mortgages/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">getting bank accounts and mortgages were an ordeal </a>up until only a few decades ago. It's not so surprising that this history informs the present moment, when, for example, <a href="https://canadianwomen.org/the-facts/the-gender-pay-gap/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">women still make less in terms of pay than men</a> and disparaging remarks are being made about single women who have cats in the United States. (Linda is not afraid to mention that she has two cats - Pinky and Moe.) She also briefly alludes to <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/women-and-the-law" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">women and legal matters</a>, including her <a href="https://psac-ncr.com/canadian-womens-history/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">right to get a divorce</a>. <br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
