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Why Women REALLY LEAVE Great Jobs and UBER

This week Susan Fowler an UBER engineer wrote an article describing the sexism she encountered over a year working at UBER. Her situation VERY familiar and one that needs to be told MUCH more often. Since so few people think this happens I am collecting personal stories from professional women about WHY THEY LEFT a great job

Here is my new BOOK TRAILER for LEAN OUT!

Here it is. My new Book Trailer for my book: Lean Out- How to Dismantle the Corporate Barriers That Hold Women Back. Please circulate widely! Click here.

MUST WATCH Ashley Judd’s TED talk

In 20 minutes Ashley Judd describes the horrors of online misogyny and asks men and particularly the tech industry to stop sexist behaviour (especially in creating violent misogynist games for boys). Immediately. As she says, online hateful word are HATE CRIMES against women and should be treated as such. My question is: Where are the MOTHERS

How to leverage the Women’s March in Washington

I know how to leverage the women’s march. It’s the oldest solution in the radical women’s toolkit. GATHER. Just GATHER. And if you need something to read to help you come up with IDEAS and SOLUTIONS please read my three books (Lean Out, Motherhood is Madness and Occupy Women). They explain exactly what is REALLY going on in easy-to-read format and include very

21 strategies for the women who marched yesterday

If you are not sure what to do to help bring about GENDER EQUALITY here are the 21 strategies from my book: Occupy Women- A Manifesto for Positive Change in a World Run by Men. Please forward to friends and share on social media. Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Equality: 21 Strategies Acknowledge our thousand-year-old hierarchy Uncover

Please join me this Saturday for the Women’s March

JOIN ME FOR THE WOMEN’S MARCH in Vancouver Start: January 21, 2017 – 10:00 AM End: January 21, 2017 – 12:00 PM Jack Poole Plaza 1085 Canada Place Vancouver, Canada V6C 3C1 Go to the Action Network website Host Contact Info: llangevin@ibew213.org

We need to Occupy Women to heal from Hillary’s loss

I know why Hillary did not get elected. It’s not because so many American women voted for Donald Trump (about 50-65% of white women) but rather because we are swimming in an INVISIBLE out-dated culture (with old mindsets and systems) that leads us to make to bad decisions. I think that if we challenge this culture (I urge everyone to read my three

Japan needs workers so turns to women

A conference is being held in November at Stanford University to help Japan attract and promote more women at work and in society. Why? Last year Japan realized that they were facing a shrinking and aging population and in order to remain a wealthy nation they needed more workers. As a result, women, who

Lean Out- How to Dismantle the Barriers that Hold Women Back

I am excited to tell you that I got mentioned in SLAW, Canada’s largest legal blog! Here is an excerpt. Why Lawyers Need to Lean Out and Not Lean In “Enough about the glass ceiling. It’s time to redesign the building so that women and men at all levels can be good employees and

Four money challenges women face

Here is a great article by my friend Karin Mizgala about why women have to take money seriously. Thanks Karin! Karin is also offering a day seminar for women on investing. It will be fantastic! http://moneycoachescanada.ca/blog/top-4-money-challenges-women-face/