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Come to Women’s Campaign School in Victoria

Want to learn essential campaign skills in a welcoming non-partisan environment? Register for Women’s Campaign School! When: June 12-14, 2015 Where: Legislative Chambers, Victoria, BC Registration Costs: $200 Regular, $100 Student/Volunteer/Women facing financial barriers Register: http://www.womenvoters.ca/womens_campaign_school_2015 Instructors include: Speaker Linda Reid, MLA Carole James, Councilor Adriane Carr and many more! Space is limited so

Come to Equal Voice event on June 23

Equal Voice Vancouver wants more women elected to government. Good idea! Come to their next event on Tuesday, June 23rd, at the Vancouver Art Gallery Patio at 5:30-7:30 p.m. It’s a casual send-off for summer… please join me for a pint or a glass! Equal Voice will be reconvening in August to get organized for

Great new book on lawyers being truly human

I can’t wait to read this book: The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession. Marjorie Silver is brilliant and so are all the lawyers who are striving to bring back the human side of law. Here is the blurb on the book: “This book is subversive. It aims to undermine the

How many all male panels can you count!?

This is a great CBC article on the research on all male panels. I wish I had thought of it. It’s a great example of how to show the absurdity of a world where women are held back. All Male Panels

Lawyers who earn least are most happy

I am following these mindful lawyers closely. I think they are really onto something. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/lawyers-with-lowest-pay-report-more-happiness/

How women win in politics like Notley despite barriers

This is an article well worth reading by the women at Equal Voice. Please share it with all those women who are afraid to run for politics. Notley is an amazing woman

Hostile sexualized environment in military

I just read an article about a new report by a former judge (Marie Deschamps) about the Canadian military. Having done conflict resolution work in “military-type” (or frankly all hierarchical) organizations I can say that hostile and sexualized environments are not rare. What is most important to see is WHY these cultures thrive. It has much to do

Motherhood is Madness Strategy 2: Don’t make women choose

Here is the SECOND strategy in my upcoming book. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends! MOTHERHOOD IS MADNESS – 13 WAYS TO FIND BALANCE AND FREE YOURSELF FROM THE STICKY FLOOR “It was (and perhaps in some places still is) quite common for people to say to the women who hire a substitute to care for

Equal Pay Day is April 14

Equal Pay Day is April 14, 2015. In other words, women must work that far into 2015 to earn what men earned in 2014. Women are paid approximately 78% of what men are paid for comparable work and that number hasn’t moved much in the last ten years. A recent study predicted that the

Motherhood is Madness Strategy 1: Admit it

Here is the FIRST strategy in my upcoming book. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends! MOTHERHOOD IS MADNESS – 13 WAYS TO FIND BALANCE AND FREE YOURSELF FROM THE STICKY FLOOR Strategy 1: Admit that motherhood is madness “While many women today feel more liberated, society now demands that they become superwomen—that they find the