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Fix the TV and take out the garbage [male & female brains]
It is precisely because of their different abilities — multitasking, collaboration, and ability to read social cues — that females are outperforming boys in school, outnumbering men in universities, and, in many cases, out-earning them once they graduate. “Soft” skills, teamwork, and the dreaded multitasking are now resume requirements. Manufacturing jobs demanding singular focus are being replaced by service jobs that require people skills.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, women
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Ontario midwives take legal action for pay equity
Ontario’s midwives have filed a human rights complaint against the province, arguing they’ve been subject to gender discrimination and robbed of fair pay for almost two decades… The profession, almost exclusively female, wants the tribunal to put in place a pay equity mechanism that fairly reflects midwives’ role relative to other health-care workers, such as the mostly male family physicians in community health centres.
Tags: Health, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Do women really have it better in Sweden?
Sweden and the other Nordic nations always seem to lead the rankings of the world’s best countries for women. (Canada is lucky to crack the top 20.) So they’re an ideal laboratory for finding out what women really want… In fact, Swedish women are much more likely to have part-time jobs and far less likely to hold top managerial positions or be CEOs. On top of that, Scandinavian labour markets are the most gender-segregated in the developed world.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living, women
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Meanness is a way of life in Ottawa
Today, the nastiness is deep and systemic… lack of civility has become a way of life in Ottawa — from committee meetings to tribunal hearings to everyday communications in which civil servants treat groups and citizens like Blackstock in a manner that suggests they have been actively targeted… society’s weakest are being hurt the most… “It’s vicious because there always has to be a bad guy … Meetings are sullied by derisive comments aimed at those perceived to be unfriendly to government… They’re bully tactics.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, women
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There’s no need to fear a national child care program
All the evidence demonstrates that families’ childcare needs will remain unmet without a well-designed national childcare program based on shared principles, best evidence and solid accountability. Such a program can structured to fit the brand of federalism that created other national social programs valued by Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
Tags: child care, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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The Daycare Dilemma
TheGlobeandMail.com – commentary/letters to the editor Oct. 26, 2013. Brooke Richardson, Heather Johnson-Wilson, David Paul Stone, Carmen Chan, Nicolai Grigoriev, & Scarlett Sloane Those who suggest that parents who use child care are somehow not “raising” their own children, take note: We most certainly are! No one would say that someone sending a child […]
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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What PEI and Quebec can teach the rest of Canada about improving child care
For a top-notch child-care system close to home, Canadians should look to the country’s smallest province… PEI is tackling an issue that child-care advocates argue Canada needs to address to boost the economy, relieve families of the rising cost of care that’s often poor quality and improve the futures of the next generation of skilled workers… Here are 10 lessons that should guide a national discussion to improve child care in the rest of the country.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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How to ensure child-care investments pay off
Multiple studies have documented a clear increase in the proportion of women with younger children who are now employed. This lifts family incomes, contributes to gender equity in the home and workplace and brings in new public revenues through taxation… [As for] a big boost to child development and school readiness… gains can be found for children from more disadvantaged families, but broad improvements across the spectrum are not evident.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, women
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What might a national daycare program cost?
Providing child care for about $10 a day (free to families earning less than $40,000 a year) would require an additional $11-billion a year, according to an analysis by the Human Early Learning Partnership at the University of British Columbia… In the first year alone, increased income tax revenues and reduced social expenditures generated by the program would lower the net cost to about $16-billion – a calculation that excludes longer-term social and educational benefits.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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