An Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Historica Canada posed a dozen true or false questions about Canadian women’s history. Historica says 55 per cent of those who took the quiz failed, with only three per cent answering well enough to score an A. “It’s very hard to expect people to know things which they have not been taught,” Wilson-Smith said in an interview. The most recent poll echoes findings of a survey conducted earlier this year that asked respondents to name the specific accomplishments of women such as Emily Carr and Montgomery. The online survey, conducted between Sept. 27 and Oct. 1, surveyed 1,003 people from across Canada.

Source: National Post October 15, 2018 08:03 UTC