Fifty years ago French feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir proclaimed in The Second Sex (1952): “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” With these electrifying words de Beauvoir asserted that women were defined not through biology or psychology, but through the social and cultural experience of having to constantly be the “other”
I just got my first death threat. I am terrified. It was in response to an article I wrote this week on Toxic Masculinity and how it harms men and relationships. I got a four-paragraph, graphically violent (think men’s genitals) e-mail death threat. Words like “I want to choke you until you die” type
“What frightens you of the great unknown – disappointment, being let down, ignored, denied your worth? Whatever you’re afraid of, your feeling isn’t separate from you; it’s your projection; it’s what you expect. You fear failure because you expect failure because you have failed in the past. You fear abandonment because you expect abandonment
This is HUGE. Women have been fighting for thousands of years to have ownership of their own bodies. And in one day, a small handful of men can take this away with a single law. I can’t believe this is 2019! Jessica Valenti wrote a great article on Medium.com entitled “Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Have No
Yippeee… I am so excited to share my TEDx talk! The title is: “Implicit Bias: How We Hold Women Back.” Please share widely!
Come join Women Transforming Cities on June 24! A women-friendly forum is being held in Vancouver to bring together diverse women with civic leadership to share their experiences and inspiration. We will explore opportunities and barriers to women’s political participation in Vancouver and discuss issues facing women and girls that you want municipal candidates to address
Canadian Bar Association – Public Sector Lawyers Meeting Topic: Gender Equality in the Workplace Speakers: Dr. Maureen Fitzgerald, Gender Diversity Advisor, Former Lawyer and Author Anne Nickerson, Director of the City of Vancouver’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 12:00pm – 1:00pm (Pacific Time) Locations: Vancouver: Community Legal Assistance Association at
I just found out that a big Canadian bank is training all of its employees by a UK company. The UK facilitator gave a free book to all participants called The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters. The book includes some fairly absurd ideas about how humans think. Worst of all , it is sexist.
This is absolutely fantastic. Read this NYT article. Here is an edited synopsis from Fortune: The Pulitzer Prizes—the most prestigious awards in the journalism world—were given out yesterday. The award for Public Service went to the New York Times and the New Yorker for their game-changing reporting on sexual harassment. Indeed the NYT’s Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and
Did someone say that women suffer no discrimination?? Here is a great article from Fortune dispelling this myth. Here is a quote: “The bank revealed that it pays female employees in the U.K. an average of 56% less than their male colleagues, a disparity that widens to 72% when year-end bonuses are factored in. A significant