They didn't get a true representation of what YOOP was all about, the standing the organization has and the importance they have. That importance was recognized by the original board of adjudication, which heard the case nine years ago. It wasn't understood by the appeal court judges who heard the case in subsequent years, she said. The nine Supreme Court justices split along gender lines, a fact that Langford finds interesting. The women did grasp the arguments and agreed with us.
Women can understand sex discrimination because they know and experience it.
And, in the end, with the Yukon's history being compiled by the pioneers it will be one-sided, and hence distorted. She's lived in the Klondike for 50 years, and spent a lot of that time helping her husband, John, work their gold claim on Hunker Creek. They seem to think that women want to get in there to take over. But that's not the idea at all. It's just to be recognized as a pioneer.