Doris Anderson dies at 85
Champion of women's rights, Doris Anderson, a former Toronto Star columnist and editor of Chatelaine magazine died of cancer yesterday.
Anderson and her team of writers looked at everything from abortion to sexism and made it appealing to everyone from the "prairie housewife to the Toronto sophisticate," Landsberg said. "She brought forward all the key issues for women and made them palatable and understandable ... To her, equality just made sense. It was a question of human rights and fairness."
Anderson had a profound impact on the face of Canadian feminism.
She agitated for the creation of a Royal Commission on the Status of Women through the 1960s. That commission's report eventually launched Canada's feminist revolution. - Toronto Star
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