Women's Equality Archives - Page 38 of 49

Women have to choose between career & family and men don’t

The CBC hosted a radio debate a few weeks ago about women and work. It was the same old debate pitting two successful women against each. Each suggested that her particular choice was better: to have children and stay home and work like a dog for no pay or have no children and work

Women aren’t confident but it’s neither genetic nor their fault

A study released in 2011 by Europe’s Institute of Leadership and Management revealed that women report having lower confidence in their careers: “Men were more confident across all age groups, with 70% of males having high or very high levels of self-confidence, compared to 50% of the women surveyed. Half of women managers admitted to

A single murder harms all women & girls

The harmful ripple effect of one murder is shocking and sad. This morning women across Canada were more afraid than yesterday. They are texting alerts to all their friends and mothers are picking up their girls from school – even though the murder of the 18 year old girl occurred thousands of miles away in the little town of Armstrong, BC. Routing

It’s not the police it’s the whole RCMP system

I am saddened but not surprised by Corporal Catherine Galliford’s damning indictment of her 20 year employer: the RCMP. Its not that police officers are bad guys. Its just that they have created a top-down military-like system that might be very effective in emergency situations, but does not allow for much honesty or candor. The tough-guy

Women leaders criticised for their feminine strengths

If you look closely at the criticisms levelled at women leaders, you will see that the very complaints are actually women’s feminine strengths. For example, a recent HBR article suggested that women stunt their careers in five ways. Apparently women sabotage themselves by being overly modest and not wanting to brag or appear arrogant. They

Stop asking women to act like men, please

A recent HBR article suggested that women stunt their careers in four ways. Same old stuff really. Women are once again told that they would be much more successful if they just spoke up more, took more credit for their work, asked more and stopped being modest about their accomplishments. This is the same

Why don’t feminists come out of the closet?

The target market for my services is “closet-feminists” or those women and men who beleive in equality for women but are too afraid to stand up and say so. I think it is okay to stay in the closet. Here is another brilliant take on the topic by Shari Graydon -Catalyst of Informed Opinions: “Last week Rick Mercer inspired a welcome

How students can support Penn coach criminal actions

I was surprised to see the rallies in favour of Penn State Coach Joe Paterno after he was fired from the university for sex-abuse. I guess it shows how patriotism can trump even the law. People are willing to forgive even the most horrible crimes when they have more pressing strong deeply held beliefs. Like Nazis who loved Hitler

People think that Boards are Diverse when they are not

I guess it should come as no surprise that if you ask a whole bunch of board members (mostly men) if they think that their board is diverse, they will say yes. This is now backed up by research from the Canadian Board Diversity Council’s second annual report released on November 15. Of the

Short skirts don’t harm girls, rules do

School principals who introduce dress codes for girls are causing long-term harm without even realizing it. A recent article in the Vancouver Sun (by Byrony Gordon, 26 Oct 11) titled “Skirts haven’t been dangerous for 6,000 years” almost gets this important point. It is true that most teen girls wake up one day and