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Video on Law Student Depression

New York attorney Daniel Lukasik has created a documentary on law school depression and urges all lawyers to see it. Mr Lukasik, who like thousands of lawyers, suffers from depression also set up a web site dedicated to lawyers: www.lawyerswithdepression.com. His 30-minute documentary is titled: “A Terrible Melancholy: Depression in the Legal Profession,” and is designed

Mindfulness is Out of the Closet

Okay, I have to come out of the closest – or should I say off of my pillow? I have been meditating and learning mindfulness for over 8 years now. It started with a very short course up at the University (UBC) with Deb Prieur (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program) and culminated last weekend when I attended my

Women in Media Lag Behind

Daphne Bramham (Vancouver Sun) writes today about the sorry state of women in the media. She quotes Rosalind Gill, a professor from Kings College, London and speaker at the conference: Sex/Money/Media here in Vancouver. Gill suggests that all of the progress made for women in the 1970′s and 1980′s are going to be lost. Research shows that women

Men Cheat Because Women Have Little Power

Why do men cheat? It seems this perennial question haunts women who have been betrayed by their husbands. But for those in the know, such as British comedian Peadar DeBurca, who dedicates his life to the question: “It’s because they can.” In other words, there are no real consequences for not cheating, so why not?

Unmarried (And Married) Women Could Be Prime Ministers

This Saturday, we will find out if the Australian public thinks that unmarried women should be Prime Ministers. A silly question, you might ask in this day and age. But if you follow the Australian media you will quickly discover that many people think that Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, who is

Stopping Trafficking of Girls Begins at Home

Daphne Bramham is my favorite journalist (Vancouver Sun columnist). Her recent articles are about human trafficking and she tackles the topic so eloquently (Vancouver Sun, June 19, 2010 and others). The disturbing story about the conviction of a local art dealer and father, Kenneth Klassen who plead guilty to 15 counts involving sex acts with girls under the age

Can It Be that Brainstorming Is Bad?

Apparently all the prior research that suggests that brainstorming and group work is important to creativity- is wrong. Or so suggests a recent article in business magazine. Psychologist Nicholas Kohn from the University of Texas conducted research on students asking them to come up with new ideas for the university – in both groups and

Only Single Women Make It To The Top

If you women really want to be successful, do not get married and do not have children. Or so suggests a recent New York Times article. According to the article, the last three men nominated to the US Supreme Court have all been married and, among them, have seven children. The last three women

Women Have Never Had It So Good- Wrong

The Economist magazine staged an amazing debate recently and invited some of the smartest women on earth to talk about “whether women in the developed world have ever had it so good.” Here are some clips from Irene Lang, president and CEO of Catalyst, a leading research organisation on women and business. “George Orwell

Bag Lady or Powerhouse

I went to a wonderful presentation at UBC by Lillian Zimmerman the author of: Bag Lady or Powerhouse-A RoadMap for Midlife (boomer) Women. She described in detail the layers of discrimination suffered by women in their later years. From greeting cards to degrading comments by journalists about powerful women, (apparently Hilary Clinton has disgusting