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Sadly Canada ranks 46 for gender equity in parliament

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Here is a recent posting from SLAW: The Library of Parliament has released two background papers respecting parliaments and gender: Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: 1. Advancements in the Workplace [PDF] and Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: 2. The Work of Legislators [PDF]. The papers adopt the Inter-Parliamentary Union (ITU) understanding of a gender-sensitive parliament as: a parliament that responds to […]

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‘Ladydrawers’ Creates Big Picture of Cartoon Bias

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A new collective is producing a steady stream of comic strips about their own findings of gender bias. Topics range from the male domination at Marvel to female creators using male-sounding names.By Sarah Seltzer, WeNews correspondent, Tuesday, August 7, 2012. http://womensenews.org/story/arts/120803/ladydrawers-creates-big-picture-cartoon-bias

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Women get less severance pay

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Professor Ken Thornicroft at the Universty of Victoria has discovered that when women are wrongfully fired from their jobs and sue for wrongful dismissal they receive less severance pay in court than men in similar circumstances. About 1.7 months less on average. He also conducted research on his students and found that in 600 sets of staged workplace dismissal negotiations, female students received significantly

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