One of the things I love most about being a translator is that I learn new and interesting things every day. Today, however, I was shocked to learn that women in Quebec were not permitted to sit on juries until June 17, 1971.
1971.
Friends, my mind is blown. I knew that women gained full suffrage quite late in Quebec (1940), but the right to sit on juries is within my lifetime. I am shaken to the core and outraged.
