Tracy Sherlock (Vancouver Sun) reported this week that women are still significantly under-represented and misrepresented in news media coverage despite some recent improvements . The Global Media Monitoring Project discovered the following: 76% of people reported in the news are men women are mostly used as providers of personal accounts and rarely as knowledgeable experts 32% of all stories […]
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Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail recently interviewed Belinda Stronach about what needs to change to get more women into politics. Belinda, now the executive vice-chair of Magna International Inc. had just accepted an award from Equal Voice for her contributions as a parliamentarian. Ms Stronach mentioned three things: video conferencing of meetings, phone voting and more respectful behaviour in the House of Commons. She
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I love it when powerful women find ways to play out that power in such a positive way. Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail reports (Nov 24) that Ms Harper (Canada’s first lady) co-hosted a gathering with Heather Reisman (CEO of Indigo books) and 14 human-rights experts from the Iranian community and a few journalists. They
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I read recently about a research doctor (Jeffrey Mogil, of McGill University) who was challenging the use of only-male rat research. As it turns out, in about 80% of scientific studies, only male rats are used. Why? Because of “menstrual cycles and the variability in results that it might cause.” Since both men and women get diseases, don’t
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Daphne Bramham (Vancouver Sun) writes today about the sorry state of women in the media. She quotes Rosalind Gill, a professor from Kings College, London and speaker at the conference: Sex/Money/Media here in Vancouver. Gill suggests that all of the progress made for women in the 1970′s and 1980′s are going to be lost. Research shows that women in
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Why do men cheat? It seems this perennial question haunts women who have been betrayed by their husbands. But for those in the know, such as British comedian Peadar DeBurca, who dedicates his life to the question: “It’s because they can.” In other words, there are no real consequences for not cheating, so why not? Think
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This Saturday, we will find out if the Australian public thinks that unmarried women should be Prime Ministers. A silly question, you might ask in this day and age. But if you follow the Australian media you will quickly discover that many people think that Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, who is single
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Apparently all the prior research that suggests that brainstorming and group work is important to creativity- is wrong. Or so suggests a recent article in business magazine. Psychologist Nicholas Kohn from the University of Texas conducted research on students asking them to come up with new ideas for the university – in both groups and individually
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If you women really want to be successful, do not get married and do not have children. Or so suggests a recent New York Times article. According to the article, the last three men nominated to the US Supreme Court have all been married and, among them, have seven children. The last three women —
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I went to a wonderful presentation at UBC by Lillian Zimmerman the author of: Bag Lady or Powerhouse-A RoadMap for Midlife (boomer) Women. She described in detail the layers of discrimination suffered by women in their later years. From greeting cards to degrading comments by journalists about powerful women, (apparently Hilary Clinton has disgusting and
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