Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
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| Birth: | 8th March, 1896 |
| Death: | 25th January, 1975 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Feminist, Politician |
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Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton was born in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. She was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. At Queen's, she also served as editor of the Queen's Journal newspaper in 1917; and was the newspaper's first female editor. From Queen's she became the founding director of the Canadian Council on Child Welfare from 1920 to 1941 and helped bring about a wide array of new legislation to help children.
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