@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2ttzrt.7,
 ISBN = {9781442600546},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttzrt.7},
 abstract = {Until the mid-1980s, women were novelties in Canada’s legislatures, comprising less than 10 per cent of elected representatives in most jurisdictions. Female representatives were so rare that in some legislatures it was thought unnecessary to have women’s washrooms close to the chamber. Women elected to the House of Commons in the 1970s used the washroom in the “Parliamentary Wives’ Retiring Lounge.” Not much had changed in this regard by the 1990s. Shortly after the late Liberal MP Shaughnessy Cohen was elected in 1993 she missed a vote in the House while she searched for the women’s washroom. Cohen protested, and a},
 author = {LINDA TRIMBLE and JANE ARSCOTT},
 booktitle = {Still Counting: Women in Politics Across Canada},
 edition = {2},
 pages = {42--68},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {The Electoral Glass Ceiling},
 year = {2008}
}