Law Week 2021 : Ada Evans

⚖️ Law Week is celebrated around the country from 17 – 23 May and is an important time to learn about the people who work to resolve legal queries, learn how & when the law can affect your life and stimulate discussion to help find answers to your legal questions. To celebrate Law Week 2021, the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service Inc. will be featuring facts about women and the law you may not know…

✊ Australia may have been the second country to give women the vote, however, the inclusion of women in the workforce – and their acceptance into the legal profession – took much longer…

👩‍⚖️ Ada Evans, a strong, studious woman, was initially told she “did not have the physique for law and would find medicine more suitable” 🙄 … She went on to become the first female law graduate in Australia, paving the way for many women for years to come 🤔