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Report shows Canadian Women don’t know much about Politics

Here is the Equal Voice press release: Over the past week, a prominent study by a researcher from the United Kingdom suggested that Canadian women know significantly less than men about the political arena in terms of formal knowledge. In fact, the study suggests that women in Canada are some of the least informed citizens when

Women catch up to men in infidelity

Recent research shows that women are having more extra marital affairs these days. In fact wife affairs rose almost 40 percent in the last 20 years. Why? Although we like to think it has to do with sex drive this is not the case. According to Daniel Bergner author of, “What do Women Want?” women’s sex drives

Deepa Mehta amazing filmaker is in Vancouver July 13

On July 13 Deepa Mehta will be speaking in Vancouver as part of the Indian Summer Festival. If you have not seen any of her films, you must. They are so raw and honest they open your eyes and hearts to the way we see women in the world. Go to: www.indiansummerfestival.ca.

Wake up: Wife Beating an International Epidemic

The WHO (World Health Organisation) just published research on domestic violence. Almost 40% of all women killed worldwide were killed by an intimate partner. A lover! A husband! Nearly 600million women live in countries where domestic violence is not even a crime! It’s time to name the problem for what it is. It is not about women,

Please support the Man Up campaign in June

http://www.theviolencestopshere.ca/

Kudos to Angelina Jolie for fighting rape in war

This is what people in power should do. First, educate yourself about women. Second, do something. Angelina is amazing. She went directly to the UN Security Council! and simply said what we all know is true: To use rape as a weapon in war is totally unacceptable. All the Council (that represents hundreds of countries around the world)

Listen to why MILF is so harmful to women

Here is a great CBC Jian Ghomeshi debate about Mothers I’d Like to F* (MILF). It saddens me that some try to cast it as a compliment when it simply reinforces the age-old idea that women are only valuable when deemed so by men. Apparently if you watch pornography (which I recommend if you really want to

How to advance women by asking ten simple questions

I use the following the ten questions as the Table of Contents for my upcoming book, titled: 50 Ways to Advance Women.” I hope this book (that I am struggling to get done!) will become the “textbook” for the Lean In movement! Do humans really thrive in a 24/7 competitive culture? Are men really better workers and leaders than

Women, not men think more women are needed at top

Ninety percent of the women surveyed said, yes, there is a need for companies to increase the number of women in senior management. But only 42 percent of the men surveyed agreed! http://www.conferenceboard.ca/press/newsrelease/13-05-15/he_says_she_says_gender_gap_persists_in_attitudes_toward_women_s_advancement_in_the_workplace.aspx

Thank you Shelley Fralic for your words

Vancouver Sun journalist Shelley Fralic wrote a great article on Friday May 31: We Really Haven’t Come a Long way Baby.” She got kick-back from an earlier article showing how few women were at the top. She responds: “How dare I write that women aren’t making progress in modern society? How regressive of me to