Good news, particularly given the sexist culture alleged by so many women in the RCMP. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/aboriginal-woman-becomes-top-cop-in-saskatchewan-as-head-of-rcmp-division/article13921303/
This sounds like a great way to start a movement! They plan to start a 7-day Times Square campaign on 11th of October, 2013, the 2nd International Day Of The Girl. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brave-girls-invade-times-square
My friend Cheryl just helped me understand why powerful women avoid feminists. Its quite simple. Cheryl was a feminist years ago and is now wealthy and powerful (enough). As she says (and I supplement), 1. We hate feeling powerless. We hate feeling that we need someone to rescue us. Women should stop complaining about the difficulties of working in a “mans world” and start sucking it up.
“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there is room in the garden for every flower.” Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love.
Canada as a country has very little interest in women’s advancement. In fact there is no organisation in Canada that keeps track of whether women are advancing at all. we have no idea about whether women are paid less, promoted less, poor or starving. We do not know how many women are executive, mothers or sit on
It is critical for all of us to understand the harm of pornography. I urge all mothers to teach their sons about erotic healthy desire and not aggressive sex. But how are mothers to know what is healthy if they too are told that torture is cool and natural. Here is research showing how harmful one book can
Here is an interesting article telling us what we women have known all along. To use only our masculine assets is a shame. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/research_male_leaders_should_think_more_like_women.html
The fact that these ads were created, paid for and posted gives us some idea of how little advertisers know about the harm of stereotypes. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-halifax-mall-ads-denounced-as-sexist/article13923224/
I can not believe that women are dying due to (illegal cheap) injections in their bottoms! Rather that blaming poor “silly” women, its time for us to stand up to the continual media attacks on women’s bodies. It is never ending. Would we look at this epidemic differently if men were lining up for plastic surgery,
When I facilitate conflict resolution circles in corporations, the solution emerges the minute one person begins to understand the pain of another. This is called empathy. Here is a fantastic quote by Marianne Williamson making this task practical. “If I am yelling, the person in front of me can react in one of two ways.