Milestone Of Women's Rights Marks 20Th Anniversary

TORONTO - All it took was a pair of exposed breasts in public to set a milestone for Canadian women.

Gwen Jacob was 19 when she arrested in Guelph for indecent exposure in 1991. She and a fellow university student noticed a group of guys naked from the waist up playing sports in the blistering sun and decided to take off her top after musing about the inequality of it all.

She was charged and fined $75.

Five years later, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and gave her back the money.

On July 19 this year, Jacob’s fight officially celebrates its 20th anniversary.

“With my hands shaking furiously, I took my shirt off and jammed it down the back of my shorts and I can’t tell you the freedom that entailed in that moment,” Jacob, now in her late 30s, said during a recent interview with Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park in Sharon...

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SOURCE: Toronto Sun