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Wake up: Wife Beating an International Epidemic

The WHO (World Health Organisation) just published research on domestic violence. Almost 40% of all women killed worldwide were killed by an intimate partner. A lover! A husband! Nearly 600million women live in countries where domestic violence is not even a crime! It’s time to name the problem for what it is. It is not about women,

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http://www.theviolencestopshere.ca/

Kudos to Angelina Jolie for fighting rape in war

This is what people in power should do. First, educate yourself about women. Second, do something. Angelina is amazing. She went directly to the UN Security Council! and simply said what we all know is true: To use rape as a weapon in war is totally unacceptable. All the Council (that represents hundreds of countries around the world)

Listen to why MILF is so harmful to women

Here is a great CBC Jian Ghomeshi debate about Mothers I’d Like to F* (MILF). It saddens me that some try to cast it as a compliment when it simply reinforces the age-old idea that women are only valuable when deemed so by men. Apparently if you watch pornography (which I recommend if you really want to

Why so many women are hurt when dumped by friends

I have been reading the Huffington Post articles on women breaking up with women. It breaks my heart. The problem is universal for women in this generation and needs to be surfaced to stop all this long-lasting pain. My research on girls shows that we never teach our daughters how to tell the truth in a compassionate way. Indeed we

Weekly words of wisdom

“All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident.” Schopenhauer.

App Camp for Girls is a brilliant idea

Wow, I wish I had thought of it myself. Go to Indiegogo (crowd sourcing) and donate to a great idea. www.indiegogo.com/projects/app-camp-for-girls

There is a link between lawyer sucides and law school

I practiced law for 20 years and have been reading about the problem of suicides among U.S. lawyers. I have to say I am not surprised. It’s not just the pressure, its our entire legal system starting with first year law school. I spent six years (my doctorate years) looking at what happens to law students.

How to advance women by asking ten simple questions

I use the following the ten questions as the Table of Contents for my upcoming book, titled: 50 Ways to Advance Women.” I hope this book (that I am struggling to get done!) will become the “textbook” for the Lean In movement! Do humans really thrive in a 24/7 competitive culture? Are men really better workers and leaders than

Weekly wise words

“Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.” Susan Brownmiller “Pornography is about dominance … Erotica is about mutuality” Gloria Steinem.