I spent a good amount of time yesterday, posting additions to this blog. I wanted to give it life and body. I wanted to help explain my message and my mission. What I am so worked up about. Why Feminism matters today more than ever for the good of men and women alike. And then a great man sent me a great Tweet and showed me another great man who really gets it. This brilliant artist put everything I want to say in a form so beautiful, so sublime, that I am not sure I could ever write enough to match it simplicity and ...
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The following sentence makes even me cringe -- but I think it has to be said. I believe there should be some sort of program aimed at educating college women on their career options covering life-work-motherhood balance. Yes, men should be given the same rights. But statistics show that most college-educated men work full-time and don't abandon their careers to be stay-at-home dads.
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by Robin Stern I was a young girl in the 1950s, when most women stayed home to raise their children. I remember thinking my mother's vision was ahead of her time - I thought her brave, independent, and fearless. She talked often about how women should be more in the forefront and take risks in the community at large, like working in business, going into politics. She told me with great pride stories about her work as a draftsperson during the Second World War, and I basked in her glow when she talked about creating murals for department stores. she especially liked talking about ...
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What happens when a newspaper in North America wants to criticize a female politician? It publishes an unattractive photo of her. La Presse (photo on right) and Le Devoir in Montreal seem almost to have gone out of their way to print photos of Quebec’s Finance Minister Monique Jérôme-Forget, showing her with her wrinkles around the edges and her smooth cheeks which make one think she might have undergone a little nip-and-tuck. The woman is 68, and whatever you may think of her ideas, she has obviously been a strong player on the government scene for years. And what happens when she withdraws from ...
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