Pauline Jewett was a Canadian Member of Parliament and activist. She earned a BA and an MA from Queen’s University, and a PhD in political science at Harvard University in 1949. After graduating, she taught at Wellesley College, Queen’s University, and finally in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University where she also served as the director of the Institute of Canadian Studies. She was committed to social justice and women’s equality. In 1963, she was elected as a MP for the Liberal Party. In 1970, in protest of the invocation of the War Measures Act, she resigned from the Liberal Party and joined the NDP. In the mid-1970s, she served as president of Simon Fraser University before returning to Parliament as an NDP MP in 1979. Jewett remained in office until 1988. In 1990, she became Chancellor of Carleton University. The next year, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 1992 she was appointed to the Privy Council. She died in 1992.
Jewett’s lecture was a part of the series “Canadian Women Look at the 80s” and took place on March 21, 1983.
