From Resistance to Redesign: Women Transforming Work

Across Canada and beyond, efforts to learn, teach, and safeguard women’s histories are reaching a critical moment. Feminist scholars and activists have long shown how silence, omission, and distortion shape dominant accounts of the past, especially in relation to women’s labour, leadership, and resistance. Understanding these histories offers more than recognition—it provides a foundation for making wise decisions about the future of work, helping us confront inequities, reimagine labour practices, and build systems that value the full range of women’s contributions.

In 2026, The Women’s History Project invites you to join a powerful three-part webinar series that confronts these gaps head-on. Together, we’ll explore the past, present, and future of women’s work in Canada—through the voices of those who have researched it, lived it, and fought to change it.

1. Picket Lines & Power: Women Who Reshaped Work, March 5, 4:30pm EST
2. Voices Rising: Activism and the Modern Workplace, April 9, 4:30pm EDT
3. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Designing Tomorrow's Workplaces, May 7, 4:30pm EDT

This series is for anyone committed to gender justice: Students, educators, researchers, labour organizers, policymakers, advocates and activites - and emerging leaders who believe that understanding women’s history is essential to transforming the future.

Why This Series Matters

Women’s stories have too often been pushed to the margins of historical narratives. Yet these stories—of struggle, solidarity, innovation, and courage—are essential to understanding how gender inequality has been built, resisted, and reshaped over time.

From the early battles for maternity leave, to landmark human rights cases, to issues around unpaid work, to the ongoing fight for pay equity and workplace safety, women have continually forced Canada to confront its inequities. And still, the work is far from finished.

Whether you’re stepping into the workforce for the first time or shaping policy at the highest levels, this series offers a space to learn, question, connect, and mobilize.

Together, we can write women back into history—and into the future of work.