Here is the recent research showing that even set targets for universities (research chairs) can’t be met. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-universities-fail-to-meet-diversity-hiring-targets/article29935311/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-universities-fail-to-meet-diversity-hiring-targets/article29935311
Watch this short clip if you want to be inspired to make positive change. Dancing with the Octopus
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
This is nothing short of brilliant. I am going to try to talk Equal Voice Canada in doing a similar things.Women 50 50 The campaign for at least 50% representation of women in our Parliament, in our councils and on public boards
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
Good article by the Guardian. Five ways to promote gender equality http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2016/apr/20/five-things-to-promote-gender-equality-at-work?
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
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