Women's Equality Archives - Page 22 of 49

Its time for $10 per day child care

I agree. Thanks to Sharon Gregson and Stephanie Smith who wrote and Op Ed in the Vancouver Sun on March 5, 2013. Its critical to understand how important child care is to women, not just families. According to their article funding childcare is a “no-brainer” since its reduces the $600 million cost of employee turnover,

Please do not buy high heel runners for your daughters

Okay enough! Hot off the fashion ramps: Running shoes for young girls that have heels hidden inside! You have to be kidding. I am sure that boys do not have the same shoe fashion. Why on earth would anyone want their young girls to fall more often, walk weirdly and harm their legs and feet

Research shows women are not from Venus

Professor Harry Reis of Rochester University has discovered what women have known all along. We are not from Venus at all! In fact woman are extraordinarily similar to men. “Although there are small average differences between men and women for some qualities such as aggression, there is so much overlap that no trait can be designated

New report show teen girls still suffering

Girls Action Foundation just published a report showing that Canadian girls still grapple with self-harm, violence, harassment and negative body image. Apparently teen girls are using more drugs and alcohol than they have in the past decade. Girls aged 10-14 are 14 times more likley than boys to end up in hospital for trying to commit

Hollywood gender bias is holding women back

Katherine Monk wrote a great article on “testosterone-filled” Hollywood and the so called “Celluloid Ceiling” that keeps women out of the television and movie industries. She collected all the depressing statistics (thank you!) and what I found most interesting was the layers and layers of men and male-based organisations that held women back. This includes male directors, male movie-reviewers, male

Go to the Vancouver Women in Film Festival

This is not only a fantastic event but also a small way of supporting such hard-working women that are hardly recognized in the testosterone-fueled television and film industry. I will check on the dates and post them here.

How do you support women working in corporations?

I went to a panel presentation last week at the YWCA: Innovative Workplaces: Supporting Women in Business. It was a full house with 60 women! The speakers were Evi Mustel of the Mustel Group; Janet Austin, CEO YWCA and Kirsten Sutton, Managing Director, SAP. they were all SO well informed and so well spoken. And so humble. I learned

Two Vancouver events for International Women’s Day at the VPL

Tonight at 7pm there is an event at the downtown Vancouver Public Library (VPL) “Inhabiting Women’s Space” where four authors present. On Monday, also at The VPL at 7pm there is an airing of the documentary “Status Quo?” directed by Karen Cho about the women’s movement in Canada. I will be there!

Shari Graydon is a great teacher on Op Eds for women

I went to a talk up at UBC last week by Shari Graydon of Informed Opinions (based in Ottawa). She is a powerful and compassionate presenter and clearly knows her gender-bias stuff. I agree that women need to be good at writing Op Eds so that we can share our brilliance with the world. Please

My 10 book titles on advancing women and girls

I have been writing 2 books on advancing women and girls for over four years now. It just occured to me that if I really wanted to get all my ideas out to the world quickly it would be better to write 8-10 smaller practical ebooks than 2 big hardcover books. So I recently chunked my