{"id":9546,"date":"2017-04-02T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?p=9546"},"modified":"2020-10-25T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:38:29","slug":"remembering-kay-sigurjonsson","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/remembering-kay-sigurjonsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Kay Sigurjonsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sigurjonsson-XXob01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9547\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) was saddened by the recent passing of Kay Sigurjonsson, a feminist activist who campaigned for women&rsquo;s rights and was instrumental in persuading&nbsp;the Federation of Women Teachers\u2019 Association of Ontario (FWTAO) to fund the start-up of LEAF in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">About Kay Sigurjonsson<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career Highlights and Acitivism<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1960, Kay&nbsp;took up a graduate fellowship at the University of Toronto, studying under Northrop Frye and then worked for the University of Toronto Press before joining the FWTAO, where she became associate executive director of the organization, sharing the leadership with Florence Henderson and Shirley Stokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under their leadership, they helped strengthen the FW\u2019s (as it was usually called) staff resources, increase its strike fund and raise its profile. Kay&nbsp;edited its publications, supervised collective bargaining, political action and public relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kay&nbsp;joined with other women activists in 1972 to create NAC, to push for implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. It received government funding until that was cut off under prime minister Mulroney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She persuaded FW\u2019s board, in 1985, to fund the startup of LEAF whose first office was FW\u2019s tea room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was one of eight founders of Canadian Women&rsquo;s Foundation in 1991. For three seasons, she was co-host of CBC-TV public affairs show <em>Weekend<\/em> and she later served on the Ontario Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee and on the board of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Reputation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Western Ontario awarded Kay&nbsp;an honorary degree and the YWCA named her a woman of distinction. She will be remembered as a fiercely intelligent, independent woman who was a major voice and decision maker in the women&rsquo;s movement and feminism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read The Globe and Mail&rsquo;s obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/kay-sigurjonsson-feminist-activist-campaigned-for-womens-rights\/article34513544\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9547,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9546","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remembering Kay Sigurjonsson - LEAF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/news\/remembering-kay-sigurjonsson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering Kay Sigurjonsson - LEAF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Women\u2019s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) was saddened by the recent passing of Kay Sigurjonsson, a feminist activist who campaigned for women&rsquo;s rights and was instrumental in persuading&nbsp;the Federation of Women Teachers\u2019 Association of Ontario (FWTAO) to fund the start-up of LEAF in 1985. 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