I see today’s event hosted by Women’s Executive Network (WXN ,Vancouver) is sold out. It is on “Why Failing is Good.” Hmmm. I am not sure what that means 🙂
Dan Gardner wrote a great article in the Vancouver Sun about the Glass Cliff that powerful women often face. This happens when a sinking organisation promotes a woman to the top. He called it the Kim Campbell phenomena referring to our solo female Prime Minister. When women in these difficult situations fail, she of
An article in the London based Daily Telegraph reports that sex-selective abortions are fairly widespread and doctors are well aware of the problem. Although most doctors consider this practice unethical, since the issue has never been tested at law, many turn a blind eye. I think that even if doctors choose not to stop
Recent research shows that those teens who watch movies showing people drinking alcohol are more likely to start drinking sooner. No surprise, except that SO many movies show young adults drinking. Think of all those movies where college students are seen drinking themselves silly and doing stupid and dangerous things with no apparent consequences
Claudia Li, a 25 year old Vancouver woman is single handedly saving the sharks. Why? Because she can. Her non-profit organization “Shark Truth” is stopping the eating of shark fin soup. As a Chinese-Canadian woman from a traditional family she knew that eating shark fins had two purposes: family status and generosity. Her work
The movie “Saving Face” won an Oscar! Hooray for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and her two-year journey in bringing to light the vicious practice of acid attacks on women. The most important thing to know is that it took amazing courage for the two women in the movie to speak up only to help other women
Author of the book, “The Future of Power,” Joseph Nye has hit the nail on the head about women and leadership. In a recent article he said that research shows that the more “feminine styles” of leadership are effective and that the old tough male stereotypes based on power-over others are falling from favour.
Sarah Symonds the famous recovering mistress (she had sex with Nicolas Cage!) now teaches husband hunters to become empowered and stop accepting second status love affairs. This is great. Sadly however, she became most famous for her criticisms of wives and mothers at home who “allowed” their husbands to stray. What she missed was
I can’t wait to watch the new documentary called “Wonder Women! The untold Story of American Super heroines,” directed by Kristy Guevara- Flanagan. It’s about the one rare superhero but also about why women and girls need strong powerful heroes that they can relate to. There are so few. Here’s to more women that
A female RCMP officer recently effectively lost her job for having sex in a police car with her boss, another higher ranking RCMP officer. Her husband apparently told all when he found out. When brought to “trial” a three officer panel held her guilty of disgraceful conduct and was essentially dismissed for lying about