Quote of the week
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” Mary Lamberton Becker
I just read about Gold Corp’s (a huge mining company) mentoring program for woman called Creating Choices. Apparently 500 women internationally have graduated from the program that consists of six modules on topics ranging from empowerment to leadership. Wow! I will look into it and of course add it to my collection of “women-advancing initiatives” for
Go to the Vancouver Women in Film Festival
This is not only a fantastic event but also a small way of supporting such hard-working women that are hardly recognized in the testosterone-fueled television and film industry. I will check on the dates and post them here.
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How do you support women working in corporations?
I went to a panel presentation last week at the YWCA: Innovative Workplaces: Supporting Women in Business. It was a full house with 60 women! The speakers were Evi Mustel of the Mustel Group; Janet Austin, CEO YWCA and Kirsten Sutton, Managing Director, SAP. they were all SO well informed and so well spoken. And so humble. I learned so
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Two Vancouver events for International Women’s Day at the VPL
Tonight at 7pm there is an event at the downtown Vancouver Public Library (VPL) “Inhabiting Women’s Space” where four authors present. On Monday, also at The VPL at 7pm there is an airing of the documentary “Status Quo?” directed by Karen Cho about the women’s movement in Canada. I will be there!
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Shari Graydon is a great teacher on Op Eds for women
I went to a talk up at UBC last week by Shari Graydon of Informed Opinions (based in Ottawa). She is a powerful and compassionate presenter and clearly knows her gender-bias stuff. I agree that women need to be good at writing Op Eds so that we can share our brilliance with the world. Please hire Shari
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My 10 book titles on advancing women and girls
I have been writing 2 books on advancing women and girls for over four years now. It just occured to me that if I really wanted to get all my ideas out to the world quickly it would be better to write 8-10 smaller practical ebooks than 2 big hardcover books. So I recently chunked my books
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Women who got married got fired before Edith Lauterbach
I did not know Edith but I am riding on a road she built. She died at age 91 and was the last of four female flight attendants who in the 1940’s organized a union to fight for equal rights for “stewardesses.” In the 1940’s airline attendants who got married got fired. They were required
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Quote of the week
“The problem with the world is that we draw our family circle too small.” Mother Teresa
Conference to advance women in science, engineering and technology
All women scientists and engineers should attend the upcoming conference in Vancouver on May 11, 2013. It is titled Creating Connection: Working Together to Transform our World, a dialogue about the role of women in science, engineering and technology hosted by UBC. If you go, please let me know what transpires. It sounds exciting. And I love
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