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Slut Walk Stops the Blaming of Women

In January a Toronto police officer gave a safety seminar to a group of York University students. He said, “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” On April 3, 2011 more than 3000 people marched from Queens Park to Toronto police headquarters to raise awareness of female stereotypes. These

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Leaders Must Recruit Women Leaders

Here some clips from a great Globe & Mail Editorial on women (from 11 Jan 2010). The column suggests that women still have a long way to go and recommends that leaders such as CEOs take up the personal task of advancing as many women as possible. It’s hard not to feel wistful in

$250 Million Award Against Novartis

A jury made punitive ward of $250 million against pharmaceutical giant Novartis in May. This was the largest award ever in a gender discrimination case, involving allegations of 5600 women over five years. The award will likely rise up to near $1billion when the court next deals with back pay and compensation. The evidence was disturbing and alarming, showing that executives at Novartis not only consistently

Pink Boardrooms – Women Make Dismal Progress On Boards

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

Please Dont Criticize Women On Boards

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

Men Against Pornography

I was pleased to see a recent article in the Globe and Mail by Wency Leung (Nov 5, 2010) that discussed the movement by many men to fight against pornography. Sadly the pornography industry has become a multi-billion dollar machine, often takeing advantage of very young girls and vulnerable women who have few other means of livelihood. But the

Don’t Legalize Prostitution

Although I support those women who are fighting to legalize prostitution – because they want sex-trade workers to be safer as I do – I can not agree that legalization is the answer. I think this would simply turn this very-dangerous-de-humanizing job into a bit less-dangerous-but still- de-humanizing job. We must stop framing the issue as one of “women’s choice” when very few of these

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

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