I am excited about attending the Minerva “Face of Leadership Conference” on June 22. Come join me and learn about diversity and inclusion. https://theminervafoundation.com/announcing-the-full-face-of-leadershiptm/
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This is a great selection of speeches by another lawyer: Favourite Speeches by Women https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-top-ten-favourite-speeches-women-kolarele-sonaike
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Great video on female capital. Female Capitalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGojxqo8oF0
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One women candidate is not enough Here is an excerpt from this recent research suggesting if we simply add women to the “pool” we can shift gender bais! Cool. “Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white men. This doesn’t mean that companies haven’t tried to change. Many have
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Here is the recent research showing that even set targets for universities (research chairs) can’t be met. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-universities-fail-to-meet-diversity-hiring-targets/article29935311/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-universities-fail-to-meet-diversity-hiring-targets/article29935311
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Watch this short clip if you want to be inspired to make positive change. Dancing with the Octopus
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This is nothing short of brilliant. I am going to try to talk Equal Voice Canada in doing a similar things.Women 50 50 The campaign for at least 50% representation of women in our Parliament, in our councils and on public boards
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EQUAL VOICE RELEASE: Conservative MP Michelle Rempel’s article about everyday sexism on the Hill in last week’s National Post is another sobering reminder of a male-dominated workplace in which women who occupy positions of power are met with varying degrees of hostility and/or ignorance far too often. This is not unique to Parliament Hill. Gender-biased behaviour
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Why does the Globe and Mail not fire Ms Wente? Margaret Wente plagiarism. Here is another article by Shari Graydon (of Informed Opinions) that describes how many educated women feel about the things that Margaret Wente writes: Informed opinions
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I went to a talk at SFU (at their lovely waterfront campus!) a few weeks ago and was delighted to hear Anne Giardini speak about how she survived (thrived) in a male dominated world. She too is a lawyer. She reminded me about how many groups of women (like the Canadian Bar Association Women ) have spent
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