The Gates Foundation recently announced that Melinda Gates intends to put birth control back on the international agenda by making it her signature issue and significantly boosting funding. This is very brave considering Melinda is a Catholic and has been accused of attacking Catholic sexual morality. Still she holds firm knowing that too many women […]
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India ranked the lowest in terms on female equity in a recent G20 report by 370 gender experts. Almost 45 percent of girls are married before they turn 18, one bride is murdered every hour over dowry demands, violence against women is rampant and research shows that 51 percent of men and 54 percent of women
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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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You must listen to this great mini-doc on CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2012/06/05/delusions-of-gender/ Cordelia Fine is the author of the book Delusions of Gender. I will have to go buy it now.
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According to the Census, woemn between the ages of 20 and 34 are taking on trade jobs like never before. Although the news suggests they are shattering stereotypes, the truth is that skilled labour is currently in such short supply that the male-based trades are forced to hire women. Curiously the employers are pleasantly surprised by
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Each May the YWCA honours women (Women of Distinction) but did you know they also have an award for the most Innovative Workplace? This award is given to an organisation that helps their employees manage work-life balance, offers affordable child care and provides flexible work hours. These are the very things that women need to be be able to both work for
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Recent research shows that female farm workers are so often sexually harassed that they see it as an unavoidable condition of agricultural work. As stated by Grace Meng, of Human Rights Watch, “It’s easiest for abusers to get away with sexual harassment where there is an imbalance of power, and the of power is particularly stark on farms. [Source:
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Katrina Onstad of the Globe wrote a great article in response to Time Magazines’ headline, “Men Spend More Time in the Kitchen” Here are a few of her insights (merged with mine). When men do show up in the kitchen, they tend to do the high visibility work, like meals for guests and barbeque – not the grocery shopping,
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Women — especially working mothers — are the ultimate multitaskers, but they’re not too happy about it. There’s now empirical evidence in the December issue of the American Sociological Review that underpins the notion that working moms are juggling multiple roles at once — and having a pretty lousy time doing so. “This helps explain why women feel more burdened
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