Here is another article on how lawyers are failing at work-life balance. One lawyer even blames the clients! If you following my writing you will know that that the term “work-life balance” is a fictitious term created by the media to suggest that individuals – not the institutions they work within – are somehow able to […]
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I love Eve Ensler. I just heard her on CBC radio talking about her new show on off-Broadway “I am an emotional being” you must see her on YouTube. She is great. She also spoke about a spontaneous visit last week to a US city where 5000 women showed up to listen to her do
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Did you see the research that found male DNA in 60% of women tested? Apparently women get this DNA during pregnancy from male fetus and it lasts their whole lives. Weird. I wonder whether women will now be treated better since we are after all, not that different than males. I wonder if I I can
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I just read an article about Godyne Sibay – a woman lawyer and partner at McCarthy’s in Toronto. Apparently at her first interview with a Bay Street law firm years ago the interviewer told her that there must have been some mistake. Her name sounded like a man’s name. She was told that the law firm had a policy
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Here is a summary of how far gender equality took us in the recent Olympics. Here is an excerpt: “Yet equality is hardly at hand. At the Olympic level, there are still more men at the Games, and more sports for men. The Winter Olympics are behind the Summer Games. Women accounted for 40.7 per
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I just read another article on women who earn more than their partners – and the trouble it causes. In essence, when women earn more than their partners, men lose self esteem and resent these women. To balance this out, these high earning women tend to play down their status and position. Sad. Men have
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After writing her cover article in the July-Aug issue of the Atlantic – Why Women Still can’t Have it All- Anne–Marie Slaughter received thousands of responses from all over the world. Here is a recent quote of hers: “These are not women’s issues, but social and economic ones. Societies that discover how to use the
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Marrisa Mayer the new CEO of Yahoo has the very thing that all women have been requesting for centuries: child care and flexible work hours. These just happen to be two of the big keys to women’s freedom and equality. If every woman had these, I am sure we would see many more women in
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I hope you have been following the maternity debate sparked by the appointment of Marissa Mayer as the new CEO of Yahoo. The bottom line is this. Marissa Mayer told the Yahoo Board she was pregnant and they did the right thing by hiring her anyway. After all it’s illegal to not hire a person
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Professor Gina Barreca of the University of Connecticut recently wrote a great column suggesting it is time for women to stop fighting among themselves. I cannot agree more. She mentions an article by Elizabeth Wurtzel in The Altantic titled “Stay-at-Home-Moms are Wrecking Women’s Economic Platforms Forever” and how it attracted 17 million blog responses! As
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