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'The work is far from done': Women, feminism, intersectionality
Wendy Robbins, University of New Brunswick Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Portfolio’s ‘Equality Then and Now’ series, marking 40 years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Look for more on this topic...
Royal Commission on the Status of Women @ 40: Women's diversity and community leadership
Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Portfolio’s ‘Equality Then and Now’ series, marking 40 years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Look for more on this topic in...
“Mentoring is Key!” Success for female graduate students
Marlene Pomrenke, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor The following narratives describe the ways in which female graduate students see mentoring as essential to their academic success. As one woman stated, “Having a responsive and engaged...
Niqab: Gender equity or social exclusion?
Christine Overall, Queen’s University Guest Contributor Naïma Atef Amed has twice been forced out of government-funded French language classes for new immigrants in Montreal. The reason is that she wears a niqab, a face veil chosen by some Muslim...
Mentoring and equity: Women and geography
Bonnie Kaserman, University of British Columbia Guest Contributor Once a month I head out from my apartment in the evening, directions to someone’s home usually scrawled on a piece of scrap paper. Each month, a group of women geographers, composed of...
Mentoring, gendered work and an academic career
Sarah Wolfe, University of Waterloo and Ailsa Craig, Memorial University Guest Contributors Every day begins with an email: ‘Here’s my pact. What are you doing today?’ The messages fly back and forth, halfway across the country. Hardly the...
Equity and women of colour: Things are slow to change in the academy
Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University Guest Contributor Women of colour remain severely underrepresented in Canadian academia. Notwithstanding employment equity policies that have been in place for at least two decades in most universities, they are...
International Women’s Day 2010: Remembering Four Trailblazing Haitian Feminists
Malinda Smith, Vice-President, Equity In Haitian Creole there is a proverb that says, “ Men anpil, chay pa lau,” which roughly translates as “many hands lighten the load.” This proverb aptly captures the transnational story of women’s struggles for...
Status of Women in Canada on International Women’s Day 2010
Judy Rebick, Ryerson University Guest Contributor It is International Women’s Day 2010, forty years after the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. A generation has passed, my generation. In some ways, there has been a revolution in...