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Silicone sisters creates teen girl games

I just heard about the first all female-owned video game studio: Silicone Sisters Inc. It is Vancouver based and they have about 3000 (mostly teen girls) followers on Facebook. Good for you Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes. I am definitely going to look them up! www.siliconesisters.ca

Go to Informed Opinions

Shari Graydon, media expert has done it again. She is now teaching women all across Canada how to write Op Eds! What a brilliant idea since so few women find themselves or their perspectives in newspapers. Her Vancouver offering is on June 15 at the YWCA. Well worth attending I suspect! www.informedopinions.org.

Look for my Op ed in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun

It looks like my Op Ed “Motherhood is Madness” will be published in this Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. So Buy a copy and tell me what you think!

Susan Mey goes from lawyer to Green Cricket fame

I love the story of Susan Mey who has a business degree, a law degree and was the president of Kodak. She now (as her father says) sells soap. I think that her work creating environmentally friendly and health-friendly products is brilliant and hopefully gives her the balance she was seeking. If nothing else, her

Suicides increase amoung young girls

I just read that suicides are increasing amoung young Canadain girls. Suicide rates for girls aged 10-14 increased 50 (yes 50!) percent from 1980 to 2008. There were no reasons provided, but if my reseasrch is right, girls are facing more pressures and expectations than ever before and there are fewer buffers like solid

Must read: The Conflict

I am going out to buy the new book: The Conflict. I have read two book reveiws and Elizabeth Badinter clearly knows what she is talking about. Her message, echoes mine loud and clear. She says that women who become mothers are told in multiple ways that they must be full-time mothers and dedicate themslves entirely to

Education for boys promotes gender equality

I just read a great article in the Globe and Mail about all the great peolpe and programs that teach boys how to be real men without being violent and misogynist. Like WiseGuys and Walk a Mile in her Shoes. Similar to my work with girls, boys are taught that pornography is not healthy (and dangerous

Yeah for Women in Capital Markets

I saw a great article in the Report on Business in March about the great work of Women in Capital Markets. This is a group of women who are promoting programs inside banks and financial institutions that advance women. I will try to pull together a list of all the fantastic ways that companies work with

Killed Because they were Girls is a new book

I see that Christie Blatchford and the National Post have published a book on the trial of the Shafia family. If you recall the father, mother and brother were all found guilty of murdering their two daughters and step mother. They pushed their car into a lake. I like the title of the book because its so true.

Go to Half the Sky event on May 12

If you have not read “Half the Sky- do! It is a book about the unfairness women face in the world, even though they hold up half the sky. An event called “Women Turning Oppression into Opportunity” is on May 12 at Park Royal South mall (West Vancouver) from 10-5. Please drop by and learn about