Lawyer. Public Servant. Activist.
Beth Atcheson is a feminist activist campaigning for women’s constitutional equality, human rights and philanthropic causes. She is one of the mothers of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF, launched in 1985) and the Feminist History Society (launched in 2010). She worked in public service as assistant deputy minister in the Ministry of Finance (Ontario) and served as member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Beth was instrumental founding, and serving on, organisations including Women’s Health Collective of Toronto and women’s history website “coolwomen.ca”. She was a board member of Canadian Centre for Philanthropy.
Beth is a co-author of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women report, Women and Legal Action – along with Mary Eberts, Beth Symes and Jennifer Stoddart. Lorna Marsden and Beth co-edited White Gloves Off: The Work of the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women in 2018, part of the Feminist History Society Book Series. White Gloves Off tells the story of the organisation’s work in their fight for equality for women in Ontario during the 1970s and 1980s.
Host Debra Davis talked to Beth Atcheson for the 1000 Voices, 1000 Stories series on April 24, 2024.
This episode is produced by The Women’s History Project with thanks to the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
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