I went to a talk up at UBC last week by Shari Graydon of Informed Opinions (based in Ottawa). She is a powerful and compassionate presenter and clearly knows her gender-bias stuff. I agree that women need to be good at writing Op Eds so that we can share our brilliance with the world. Please hire Shari […]
Shari Graydon is a great teacher on Op Eds for women Read More »
Recent research shows that fathers who do not wash dishes or do laundry tend to raise “girlie girls.” (their words not mine). UBC psychologist Toni Schmader found that girls with fathers with more egalitarian attitudes about child care, cooking and cleaning are more likely to grow up and work outside the home (for pay) and not aspire
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Wow. Professor Edward Slingerland at Asian Studies UBC (plus 50 researchers!) has just received $3 million to study how religions have cemented moral behavior around the world and whether social agencies or government can replace religions as sources of connection and shared values – like in some scandinavian countries. As a recovering Catholic I find this a very
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As a lawyer I am shocked that this case was appealed twice by our government lawyers (crimnal prosecutors) at the public expense all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada!. In the words of a few law students “The Crown is prosecuting Ms Ryan with a vengeance.” Apparently Ms Ryan was beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened
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I will be attending the talk “Top Girls” (about prost feminism) at UBC on September 17th by Angela McRobbie. Go to the calandar on my Feminine Intelligence dot com website to get more information.
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You may know that women have been fighting to have midwives recognized by the medical profession for about 200 years. So it’s interesting that this week that in the name of saving money on medical costs, the BC government decided to give $2million to UBC to expand the midwives program – from 10 students to 20.
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The Vancouver Institute has a great line up of speakers this fall. Routing Number BANCFIRST The two I plan on attending are: Joel Bakan on Oct 1 “Childhood Under Seige” Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond on Oct 22 “Who Speaks for the Child?” Free Saturday evening lectures at 8:15 at Instructional Resoucre Center at UBC Call 822-1444
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