“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” Carl Jung
The UBC students, while ignorant, can not be entirely blamed for their backward attitudes. What did their parents model or teach them about women? What did their teachers tell them about women in history? What do their professors teach them? What does the pornography industry teach them? What do the male-heavy media headlines teach them? What
Today, Friday October 18, 2013 we celebrate 84 years since women were finally declared “persons” under Canadian Law on October 18, 1929. Here is the notice for the Canadian Women Voters Congress upcoming Women’s Campaign School (WCS 2013). WCS 2013 will be held November 29 and 30 at SFU Surrey. The school is led by veteran
Kirk Makin wrote and amazing and well researched article on October 5, 2013 in the Vancouver Sun. He repeated all the horrid statistic including: 90% of rapes are not reported of the 10% reported and police lay charges in less than 16% of cases. Sadly defence lawyers fight like crazy in court, shaming victims. No wonder women have
This is a very good article describing how the Canadian Federal government gives money to specific groups of women (who question its long-term effectiveness) but meanwhile ignores the deeper causes of gender inequality. http://womensenews.org/story/crime-policylegislation/130916/canadas-honor-crime-funding-decried-biased Here is an except of the article by Sadiya Ansari: “Political advocacy was cut from the listed activities eligible for funding by Status of Women
This is the funniest video on rape. We looks so ridiculous when we blame women. Because we are. http://youtu.be/8hC0Ng_ajpY
I love all the research on the importance of Emotional intelligence (EI). For almost all my life as a lawyer (20 years) I was told that I was too sensitive, should not take things so personally, was too passionate and spent too much time worrying about what other people think. Now that I am a
“When we are working solely for money, our motivation is getting rather than giving. The shift needed is from a sales mentality to a service mentality. ” Marianne Williamson.
Here is an excerpt from the NYTimes article. Well worth the read. “Harvard Business School says it wants to improve the gender balance among faculty members, but it is far from that goal without extensive hiring. There are 76 male tenured professors. All of them have been at Harvard for at least six years,