LEAF (Legal Education and Action Fund) invites you to come hear four-minute presentations by West Coast LEAF’s fabulous program leads featuring images, stories, and highlights of our work to advance women’s equality this year. DATE: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 TIME: 5-7 p.m. LOCATION: Law Courts Inn, 5th floor – 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver The
EQUAL VOICE RELEASE: Conservative MP Michelle Rempel’s article about everyday sexism on the Hill in last week’s National Post is another sobering reminder of a male-dominated workplace in which women who occupy positions of power are met with varying degrees of hostility and/or ignorance far too often. This is not unique to Parliament Hill. Gender-biased
Did you know that the USA has not signed THE most important International agreement designed to eliminate sex discrimination? It has not ratified the Convention on Elimination on all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW has been ratified by 187 of the 193 member states of the United Nations (the UN). The United States is one of only seven nations that has not
Here is a powerful excerpt from an article today by Michelle Rempel (member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill) in an Op Ed in the Financial post. Finally someone has the courage to ask men to step up!. “If you read my anecdotes and thought, “She probably was emotional,” or, “she’s too sensitive,” you
I am speaking at the Canadian Bar Association on January 21 at lunchtime in downtown Vancouver. This will be my he first talk on my new book: Lean Out (out in a few weeks). Here is the Blurb: LEAN OUT, NOT IN Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD – a recovering lawyer and change agent – shatters the
Think about this: the only people who get elected into politics are those with lots of money. The only people with lots of money are those who already are rich (through their own income, investments or through inheritances) or have rich “friends” who give them money. If we really wanted more “regular” people in politics the first
By now you may know about the outrageous and sexist comments that emerged out of Canadian Chief of Defence Staff General Tom Lawson’ mouth last week. He suggested that men are, “biologically wired, and there will be those who believe it is a reasonable thing to press themselves and their desires on others.” Yes that is what he
As a lawyer, I know that THE most powerful laws are those guaranteeing democracy. The BIGGEST barrier to democracy is corporate and union and “rich people” funding politicians. This is because in our system you can actually (through media) buy yourself into being elected. This is wrong. Premier Rachel Notley as her first act as leader
It has taken a while but here they are: the titles of my upcoming women’s books. Please tell me what you think. they are going to press in the next month. Yippee Lean Out – Shatter the glass ceiling to success, happiness and work-life balance. This book describes how corporate cultures
UBC’s Summer Institute for Future Legislators takes place in Victoria in July and August. More information about the program is available at: www.democracy.arts.ubc.ca. Thanks to VanCity and an anonymous donor, UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions is pleased to announce that they have a limited number of grants and are especially keen to recruit women,