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Tom Lawson Chief of Defence would have been fired in private sector

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By now you may know about the outrageous and sexist comments that emerged out of Canadian Chief of Defence Staff General Tom Lawson’ mouth last week. He suggested that men are, “biologically wired, and there will be those who believe it is a reasonable thing to press themselves and their desires on others.” Yes that is what he said. […]

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Hostile sexualized environment in military

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I just read an article about a new report by a former judge (Marie Deschamps) about the Canadian military. Having done conflict resolution work in “military-type” (or frankly all hierarchical) organizations I can say that hostile and sexualized environments are not rare. What is most important to see is WHY these cultures thrive. It has much to do with POWER

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