Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist and professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (19 October 1867 – 1 November 1945) was a Canadian feminist. She was a professor at the Université de Montréal, and a self-taught legal expert (her father and husband were both lawyers, and she had access to their books). She was a pioneer of the feminist movement in Québec who co-founded the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste with Caroline Dessaulles-Béique (in 1907),[1] an organization which campaigned for social and political rights for women.