In 1933 the first three women lawyers ever hired by the Ontario government were singled out and laid off on the faulty basis that their salaries were not important in their families. WLAO leapt to their protection. The earliest records of women returning to work after childbearing years are documented in WLAO Archives. Seminar topics at monthly and public interest meetings reflected combined legal and broader issues. Members Margery Blatz and Elizabeth Newton gave an address on adoption law to the Local Council of Women, (LCW) subtitled, “Lawyer minus knowledge of sociology seen as hazard”.
The 1930’s
