Elsie Gregory MacGill: Engineer, Feminist and Advocate for Social Change

Elsie Gregory MacGill was a strong advocate for social change, and as a pioneering Canadian engineer and a feminist, her actions as a social activist during the 1960s and 1970s were influenced by and reflect this dual identity. Her actions also call into question the assumption that engineering and feminism are an unlikely combination. Resume Elsie Gregory MacGill etait une grande porte-parole pour le changement social, et en tant qu’ ingenieure canadienne pionniere et feministe, ses actions d’activiste sociale durant les annees 60 et les annees 70 ont ete influencees et refletent cette dualite d’identite. Ses actions mettent aussi en question la supposition que l’ingenierie et le feminisme sont une combinaison improbable.