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Why education is critical for women’s freedoms

The correlation is clear. If you provide women with education and career choices they will be less likely to get married and have children. This should be obvious, but it is becoming abundantly clear in China, India and other countries – with dire consequences. As women gain education they get jobs. When they get jobs, they

Why did it take 28 years for Canada Post to pay Women Fairly

Twenty eight years ago one woman noticed that she was getting paid less than a man doing a similar job to her. She quite rightly complained to her union. The union did some research and realized hundreds of women throughout the corporation (Canada Post) were getting paid less than men. Because Canada Post refused

Occupy Xmas: Do not Shop On Friday or Saturday

AdBusters, the Vancouver-based magazine that inspired the world-wide Occupy Movement has a new target: Christmas shopping. It is calling its campaign Occupy Xmas and is asking people to buy nothing for Christmas this year. This is very original since instead of simply asking shoppers to buy less they are trying to topple the big

Women have to choose between career & family and men don’t

The CBC hosted a radio debate a few weeks ago about women and work. It was the same old debate pitting two successful women against each. Each suggested that her particular choice was better: to have children and stay home and work like a dog for no pay or have no children and work

Women aren’t confident but it’s neither genetic nor their fault

A study released in 2011 by Europe’s Institute of Leadership and Management revealed that women report having lower confidence in their careers: “Men were more confident across all age groups, with 70% of males having high or very high levels of self-confidence, compared to 50% of the women surveyed. Half of women managers admitted to

A single murder harms all women & girls

The harmful ripple effect of one murder is shocking and sad. This morning women across Canada were more afraid than yesterday. They are texting alerts to all their friends and mothers are picking up their girls from school – even though the murder of the 18 year old girl occurred thousands of miles away in the little town of Armstrong, BC. Routing

It’s not the police it’s the whole RCMP system

I am saddened but not surprised by Corporal Catherine Galliford’s damning indictment of her 20 year employer: the RCMP. Its not that police officers are bad guys. Its just that they have created a top-down military-like system that might be very effective in emergency situations, but does not allow for much honesty or candor. The tough-guy

Women leaders criticised for their feminine strengths

If you look closely at the criticisms levelled at women leaders, you will see that the very complaints are actually women’s feminine strengths. For example, a recent HBR article suggested that women stunt their careers in five ways. Apparently women sabotage themselves by being overly modest and not wanting to brag or appear arrogant. They

Stop asking women to act like men, please

A recent HBR article suggested that women stunt their careers in four ways. Same old stuff really. Women are once again told that they would be much more successful if they just spoke up more, took more credit for their work, asked more and stopped being modest about their accomplishments. This is the same

Why don’t feminists come out of the closet?

The target market for my services is “closet-feminists” or those women and men who beleive in equality for women but are too afraid to stand up and say so. I think it is okay to stay in the closet. Here is another brilliant take on the topic by Shari Graydon -Catalyst of Informed Opinions: “Last week Rick Mercer inspired a welcome