Go to this link to see a great video clip on a woman who got fired from CitiBank for being to sexy. You can’t win as a woman! http://news.aol.ca/ca/article/banker-fired-for-being-too-sexy/19502722?ncid=cawebmaildl1&sms_ss=email
I read a great book: Cliques by C Giannetti and M Sagareses (Broadway Books, 2001). It describes four groups of kids: Popular (35%), wannabees (10%), smaller mixed groups (45%) and loners (10%). If you tell your child about these categories, they can then describe where they fit and you can help them better survive. The popular group tend
As the most powerful countries meet (the G20) in Ottawa, you may be asking: Where are women on the agenda? Craig and Marc Kielburger (Free the Children) wrote a colum in the Vancouver Sun this week suggesting that although Stephen Harper appears to be suppprting maternal health, his conservative policies here in Canada have seriously undermined women and
I am so glad that the Lilith Celebration of Womens in Music is back. I won’t be able to attend but I hope all women (and men!) in Vancouver show up and support women artists. It’s on July 1, 2010 in Ableside Park in North Vancouver, BC. I love Sarah McLachlan as a person
Ever since Dan Brown’s mega blockbuster books I have been interested in the history (or should I say, herstory) of women – and how much of it has been blotted out, particularly by the religions of the day. I am looking forward to seeing this film on Pope Joan since it suggests that there may have been a
According to the 2009 report: “Catalyst consensus: Financial post 500 Women Board Directors”, in the boardrooms of the top 500 companies, only 14% were women. And most disappointing was that there were no (not one!) female directors in 45% of all of the public companies in Canada. As a lawyer I know well the reasons
A $1.7 million advertising campaign targeted at teen boys to prevent drinking and driving was pulled by `ICBC partners` because it was apparently too raunchy and had suggestive sexual themes. One TV ad showed a boy receiving a penis pump in the mail and just when he is getting ready to use it, he is interrupted by his mother
Instead of celebrating Norwegian and French laws that set quotas for women on corporate boards, Canadian Business Magazine used rhetoric to criticise the move. In a recent article (July 19, 2010) it suggests that because there are so few available women to fill board positions, the same women keep showing up on several boards (obviously). However, the slant they decided to take is
Tracy Sherlock (Vancouver Sun) reported this week that women are still significantly under-represented and misrepresented in news media coverage despite some recent improvements . The Global Media Monitoring Project discovered the following: 76% of people reported in the news are men women are mostly used as providers of personal accounts and rarely as knowledgeable experts 32% of
Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail recently interviewed Belinda Stronach about what needs to change to get more women into politics. Belinda, now the executive vice-chair of Magna International Inc. had just accepted an award from Equal Voice for her contributions as a parliamentarian. Ms Stronach mentioned three things: video conferencing of meetings, phone voting and more respectful behaviour in the House of Commons.