Occupy Women book Archives - Maureen F. Fitzgerald

Why Digging up the 4 Roots of Patriarchy is Critical to Equality

Good news: The WOMEN DELIVER conference is now on in Vancouver. It is an amazing gathering of men and women from around the world who seek gender equality. I am moved to tears from all of the stories of women’s continued oppression AND I am reminded that until we deal with the DEEPEST ROOTS

Listen to my Radio Interview summarizing my 3 books

Here is my Radio Interview from this week. In case you missed it. It was great talking about why I wrote the books and how I want to change the world! http://cirh2.streamon.fm/listen-pl-11116

21 strategies for the women who marched yesterday

If you are not sure what to do to help bring about GENDER EQUALITY here are the 21 strategies from my book: Occupy Women- A Manifesto for Positive Change in a World Run by Men. Please forward to friends and share on social media. Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Equality: 21 Strategies Acknowledge our thousand-year-old hierarchy Uncover

We need to Occupy Women to heal from Hillary’s loss

I know why Hillary did not get elected. It’s not because so many American women voted for Donald Trump (about 50-65% of white women) but rather because we are swimming in an INVISIBLE out-dated culture (with old mindsets and systems) that leads us to make to bad decisions. I think that if we challenge this culture (I urge everyone to read my three

We need a national women’s group in Canada now

We need a new National Women’s Group. In Canada. Now. In 2001 our federal government closed the most important organization for the advancement of women in Canada. For 30 years the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) (founded in 1972) played a unifying role for the feminist movement in Canada. Its strength was

Should women’s groups only hire female speakers?

I just saw another (boring) article criticizing women’s groups for only having women speakers. Several men posted comment saying that is stupid for women to do this because men are in the know and can offer good advice. Here is my comment: “This has nothing to do with male and female speakers at all. These comments not only add to

Women in retail face triple whammy in pay gap

Here is an excerpt from the news today: Gender pay gap worst in retail “Although almost 60 per cent of the province’s overall retail workforce is female, men still outnumber women in the highest-paid retail job: management. Men are also paid more than women in every single category of retail work, and are more

Great quick video on gender inequality

I just found this organisation! Re-Gender. Regarding gender. Re Gender Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InDSUy7g3HA

Please buy my new books on Amazon

As many of you know, I have released my three new books this week. It’s all very exciting and I plan to host an in-person book launch in May in Vancouver so will keep you posted. Please buy my books and write reviews on Amazon (it really helps sales) and tell your journalist friends to call