When university student Gwen Jacob removed her top to cool off on a sweltering summer day in July 1991, she unwittingly spearheaded a movement to give all women in Ontario the legal right to expose their breasts »

At the time, the 19-year-old Jacob said she got the idea to take off her top after watching a group of shirtless men playing sports. By removing her top, she drew attention to the double-standard in law that deemed it acceptable for men, but not women, to go bare-chested.

“There were men [who were topless] walking right past the officers who arrested me and they didn’t do anything about them,” Jacob told CBC News in an interview in 1991. “But being a woman and having slightly different-shaped breasts, I was arrested for it.”