Women's Equality Archives - Page 19 of 49

Only 27 percent of TED talks are by women

Recent research shows that out of the more than 12,000 speakers in the TED talk series with over a billion watchers, only 27 percent are women. Apparently June Cohen , Exec Producer of TED Media is concerned and is aiming for more women. According to Cohen, many women feel they are not ready to talk

How many rapes and sexual assaults on cruise ships?

All women should be a paying attention to the recent news that cruise lines do not typically disclose the statistics about “crimes at sea.” For the first time ever, the three largest cruise lines in the world reported this information on their website. Of course it comes only after pressure from US Congress and crime

Great website: To Get Her There

Here is a great website on advancing girls. Notice the words spell TOGETHER. http://www.togetherthere.org

Lean Out – 50 Ways to Shift Corporate Culture so Women can Reach the Top

Here is the proposal for my new book I am writing. I am searching for a great publisher. Pass it along! Lean Out – 100 Ways to Shift Corporate Culture So Women Can Reach the Top by Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD (former policy lawyer) (copyright) “Leaning In” is not enough In her recent best-selling book “Lean

If men did more housework the world would be amazing

I think that one key women’s freedom is to have men take home and child care seriously and carry half the responsibility (or more). We would respect women’s contributions more, we would create more humane workplaces and we would free women to do earn money, do more of what they love and help women not feel like slaves (with no pay) to their homes. Here

Please admit that women’s anxiety is caused by cultural pressures

Thanks Emma Gray for a great article. Here is a quote where she speaks of the research on women and mental illness: “As Freeman and Freeman wrote in their op-ed: “Considering that on the whole women are paid less, find it harder to advance in a career, have to juggle multiple roles, and are

Breaking the Myth about Girls and Math

Interesting article: http://academia.edu/2972642/_Mathematics_is_not_for_Girls_-_Breaking_the_Myth

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,

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