It looks like my Op Ed “Motherhood is Madness” will be published in this Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. So Buy a copy and tell me what you think!
I love the story of Susan Mey who has a business degree, a law degree and was the president of Kodak. She now (as her father says) sells soap. I think that her work creating environmentally friendly and health-friendly products is brilliant and hopefully gives her the balance she was seeking. If nothing else, her
I saw a great article in the Report on Business in March about the great work of Women in Capital Markets. This is a group of women who are promoting programs inside banks and financial institutions that advance women. I will try to pull together a list of all the fantastic ways that companies work with
Things are getting worse for the Missing Woman Commission who is looking into why the murderer (Pickton) of so many sex trade workers was not caught sooner. Recently some former (note they are not current!) staff working working on the inquiry alleged sexist attitudes by certain male staff. So the head (Wally Oppal) decided to appoint Delayne Sartison,
I see that my friend Debbie Douez is suing Facebook in BC for using her name and photo without her permission. Facebook created the concept of “sponsored stories” and can link your photo with a product without your consent! Where would we be without women like this who are looking out for us and
Claudia Li, a 25 year old Vancouver woman is single handedly saving the sharks. Why? Because she can. Her non-profit organization “Shark Truth” is stopping the eating of shark fin soup. As a Chinese-Canadian woman from a traditional family she knew that eating shark fins had two purposes: family status and generosity. Her work
The movie “Saving Face” won an Oscar! Hooray for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and her two-year journey in bringing to light the vicious practice of acid attacks on women. The most important thing to know is that it took amazing courage for the two women in the movie to speak up only to help other women
Sarah Symonds the famous recovering mistress (she had sex with Nicolas Cage!) now teaches husband hunters to become empowered and stop accepting second status love affairs. This is great. Sadly however, she became most famous for her criticisms of wives and mothers at home who “allowed” their husbands to stray. What she missed was
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/YhG1Bgbsj2w” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Well worth watching. There are so few video presentations as powerful as this one.
Women are taught to be less confident. They are not born this way. Ann Daly, a career coach dedicated to the advancement of women recently noticed that we teach our girls very specific approaches to confidence. We tell them that for girls to reach the top of the class they must be perfect. Absolutely