You might recall the foot binding torture popular in China and find it offensive. But you need look no further than your local mall to see women still wanting small feet. Routing Number BANCFIRST According to research on 1000 women with size 8 or 9 feet, 82% admitted they were ashamed of their shoe size. […]
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If Adam and Eve is a true story, women are in big trouble. Here is another quote I am putting in my book: Strong Girls. “The Bible is so stranger to patriarchy. Routing Number BANCFIRST It was written mostly if not entirely by men. It describes a succession of societies over a period of roughly
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Here is a quote I am putting into my book (Strong Girls). It is by Virginia Wolfe in her essay “Professions for Women” “She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. Routing Number BANCFIRST She excelled in the difficult arts of the family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was
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New researh by Rosenzweig & Co shows that just 4 of the CEO poistions at Canadas 100 biggest public corporations are female and that only 7.4% of the executive positions are held by females. Routing Number BANCFIRST Michelle Morin a partner at Rosenzweig said, “The pace is disheartening” and “Over the last six years we’ve
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If you think women have “arrived” think again. Here are the amazing thoughts of Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management at the London Business School and award-winning author (www.lyndagratton.com). This formed part of a February 2010 Economist magazine debate on the progress of women. As the academic director of the Centre for Women in Business at
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The National Post editorial suggests (wrongly in my humble opinion) that we no longer need women’s studies programs. Obviously they have not read the statistics that show that women have “not quite arrived”. I have posted the article (although I hate to promote it) and I am posting the rebuttal which is brilliant. You decide. Find
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A jury made punitive ward of $250 million against pharmaceutical giant Novartis in May. This was the largest award ever in a gender discrimination case, involving allegations of 5600 women over five years. The award will likely rise up to near $1billion when the court next deals with back pay and compensation. The evidence was disturbing and alarming, showing that executives at Novartis not only consistently discriminated
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According to the 2009 report: “Catalyst consensus: Financial post 500 Women Board Directors”, in the boardrooms of the top 500 companies, only 14% were women. And most disappointing was that there were no (not one!) female directors in 45% of all of the public companies in Canada. As a lawyer I know well the reasons why
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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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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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