“I don’t think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.” Margaret Thatcher (1973, as education secretary, 6 years before she became the PM)
You must come to the 10th anniversary of the Every Woman event. Its truly for EVERY woman who like to move! Try out tons of cool activities like Nia, Trail Walking, Groove and so many more. And meet fantastic and interesting women. I am speaking at this years event (on noon on May 25) on “How
This weekend on the west side of Vancouver there is an amazing event happening. Its called Artists in Our Midst. Every year artists open their homes and studio to the public to share their art. its a wonderful way to experience art, buy art and also meet your neighbors who are artists. I will
I plan to go to the restaurant East of Main just to see what two sisters have create. Maureen Webb and Donalda Weaver set it up as a fundraiser for a free performing arts program for kids: Project Limelight. And apparently it’s great and reasonable priced food! CONGRATULATIONS! Go to 223 East George Street
Sally Armstrong, a member of the Order of Canada and three-time Amnesty International Award winner will be speaking in Vancouver on March 25 at 7:30 at st Andrews Wesley on Burrard for $21. She just wrote a new book: Ascent of Women which is getting rave reviews. She shows us that the fight against female oppression
Katherine Monk wrote a great article on “testosterone-filled” Hollywood and the so called “Celluloid Ceiling” that keeps women out of the television and movie industries. She collected all the depressing statistics (thank you!) and what I found most interesting was the layers and layers of men and male-based organisations that held women back. This includes male directors, male movie-reviewers, male
I watched the U-Tube video by Dr Shefali Tsabary on conscious parenting. She was in Vancouver this week. I agree with her when she says that parenting involves being more conscious. It sure does. And I am urged to wake up every day by my daughters. But the focus on parenting reminds me that we place
I went to a panel presentation last week at the YWCA: Innovative Workplaces: Supporting Women in Business. It was a full house with 60 women! The speakers were Evi Mustel of the Mustel Group; Janet Austin, CEO YWCA and Kirsten Sutton, Managing Director, SAP. they were all SO well informed and so well spoken. And so humble. I learned
I went to a talk up at UBC last week by Shari Graydon of Informed Opinions (based in Ottawa). She is a powerful and compassionate presenter and clearly knows her gender-bias stuff. I agree that women need to be good at writing Op Eds so that we can share our brilliance with the world. Please
I did not know Edith but I am riding on a road she built. She died at age 91 and was the last of four female flight attendants who in the 1940’s organized a union to fight for equal rights for “stewardesses.” In the 1940’s airline attendants who got married got fired. They were