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Women are prescribed useless drugs for their libido

This week at the University of British Columbia a panel spoke about the growing medicalization of women’s’ sexuality. The 2009 documentary “Orgasm Inc.” was shown. One panellist, Joy Johnson, Head of the Institute of Gender and Health said that women have been fed a cultural belief that there is something wrong with them if

Facebook keeps women out of the boardroom

There are no women in the board of Facebook. This is surprising given that the COO is Sheryl Sandberg, an outspoken advocate for gender equality and also given that most of the 800 million users of Facebook are women. In a recent article by Bloomberg, Susan Stautberg co-founder of Women Corporate Directors, New York

Madonna helps builds 10 new schools

Madonna only shows up on the front page of the news when she is half naked. On page 17 I found a small clip saying Madonna plans to build 10 new schools in Malawi in southern Africa. When complete 100o children, half girls will be educated each year. She is working with a non-profit

Canadians still expect women to sacrifice money, status and careers

Wow…Paul Kershaw nailed it in his last article about how women will be shortchanged in retirement. He says that Canadian gender equality rankings and family policies are near the bottom of all the OECD countries. He states: `Canadians are content to ask young women to sacrifice their earnings, career ambitions and future retirement security to compensate for our

Woman officer was only one who believed prostitutes

Sadly Constable Lori Shenher still lives with a deep regret for not having done more. She was the first police officer to be assigned to the Pickton serial killer case in 1997 – five years before Pickton was arrested. She received tips from informants that Pickton was killing women and putting them in a meat

Our government just pretends to honour women

I am surprised by the outrage showed by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson in our House Of Commons. His talk condemned the murderers of the four Shafia women (Murder is Murder). He got a standing ovation – but only from his Conservative member colleagues. Mr Nicholson and his peers failed to notice that they have not as

Teens died because they were girls

The Shafia family was found guilty this week of murdering their three daughters and x-wife, by drowning all four in a car. Judge, Robert Maranger said this in his final statement: “The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that four completely innocent victims offended your twisted notion of honour that is founded upon the domination

40 reasons not to spawn: ‘I really regret having children’

Here is a clip of an article by Doug Saunders of the Globe & Mail from a 2007 article. I will look for the book today. “Everywhere you look in France these days, you seem to see its cover: The words NO KID in English, followed by “40 Reasons for Not Having Children” in

Doctors can stop feticide by not disclosing sex of baby

One doctor is fighting the killling of girls in embryo. According to the Canadian Medical Assocation Journal Dr Kale is urging doctors to not tell parents the gender of their fetuses until 30 weeks into pregnancy. Research shows that many Canadians (like many from China and India ) do not want girls and abort them more opften than

Moms are Better Multi-taskers but not Happy about it

Women — especially working mothers — are the ultimate multitaskers, but they’re not too happy about it. There’s now empirical evidence in the December issue of the American Sociological Review that underpins the notion that working moms are juggling multiple roles at once — and having a pretty lousy time doing so. “This helps explain why women feel more