McClung continued to fight for reform on various fronts, including medical and dental care for schoolchildren, European immigrants' acceptance into Canada during the second world war, property rights for women and divorce law equality.
What is true is that Francis was in the US to attend the world meeting of families, and yet did not at any point during his trip make any significant remarks about conservative touchstone issues like divorce, marriage equality or abortion.
That, arguably, to divorce feminism from equality is like shaking an egg and trying to separate the yolk from the white afterwards.
A Christian couple in Australia has vowed to get divorced if marriage equality becomes legal.
The Internet has responded in full force to an anti-gay Australian couple who vowed to get divorced if marriage equality came to their home country.
If your answers to these questions are both "yes," then buckle in, because with marriage equality comes equal-opportunity divorce.
Mr. Eugenides's own moving but long-winded book turns out to be a sort of modern-day variation on those old-fashioned narratives, meant, it would seem, to demonstrate that sexual equality and divorce haven't killed the novel, as one of Madeleine's pompous professors contends.
Among the other issues taken up by Palm and her confederates in the women's section were elimination of primogeniture, protection against wife beating, a comprehensive divorce bill, and political equality for women.
While the party celebrating the Jensen's divorce and Australian marriage equality hasn't happened yet, the Facebook group, in a way, has become a virtual party and celebration itself.
