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Tory legacy leaves little to attract women voters
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Apr 01 2011
“The whole message that we can’t fund social programs, that there isn’t enough money, is really a direct attack on women and families,”… So what’s going on? Andrea Perrella, director of the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy, suggests goal may in fact be to push more men to the right, a direction in which they started heading in the 1990s as traditional gender roles began to change… If men have turned angry in larger numbers, they tend to vote for that party that best articulates anger.
Tags: featured, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Women’s choices not the same as men’s
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Mar 15, 2011
What women want is not to benefit from “positive discrimination” policies or from convoluted figures under pay equity acts, but to be hired and compensated because they are the best for the job. What we want is simple. It has been proven over and over that what it takes to improve anyone’s lot on this earth are economic and legal freedoms enabling us to fulfil ourselves to the best of our abilities — nothing more and nothing less.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Ontario health minister has strange concept of fairness
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Mar 14, 2011
[Breast] cancer has a high likelihood of reoccurring if not treated with the drug Herceptin, which can cut the chance of cancer returning in half. But Ontario only provides the drug to those whose tumours have grown to be larger than one centimetre in diameter. Ms. Anzarut, by catching her cancer early, disqualified herself from the best possible treatment. Her appeal for an exemption was rejected… Morally and fiscally, the healthcare system is offside with reality… Especially since Herceptin is already given to women in Ms. Anzarut’s situation in other Canadian provinces.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, standard of living, women
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Equality for women? We’re not done fighting yet
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Mar. 10, 2011
To be a woman in the 21st century is to live with layers of contradictions. You can be anything you want, until you want to be a mother. You can do anything you want, but make sure you look terrific doing it… some privileged women and men decreed that the fight for equality and against sexism has been won and therefore we western women should all just shut up and stop our whining… Well-behaved women – women who don’t whine – are not the ones who make history or policy. They’re not the ones who got us this far. Take nothing for granted. Equality is never a done deal.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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18 countries where women have it way better than in North America
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Mar. 8, 2011
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re listing 18 countries that have a smaller gender gap than America. This data, published by the World Economic Forum, compares female-to-male professional achievement, educational attainment, health and political empowerment. America sinks in the rankings due to a terrible score on politics. Countries like Iceland elect an nearly equal number of women to office as men, while that’s far from true in the U.S [and Canada].
Tags: economy, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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A century of women’s rights: A struggle that continues
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Mar 08 2011
The struggle for women’s political and economic rights was big news in Old Toronto, 100 years ago. British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Sylvia were drawing sizable crowds… editors at the Toronto Daily Star devoted much of the front page to eldest daughter Christabel Pankhurst’s stunning declaration in London that the suffragists had embarked on a “real war” to claim women’s rights.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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The hedge fund manager and the nurse
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Mar 07 2011
… the Harper government introduced legislation that effectively strips women in the public service of pay equity coverage. On this rather sombre International Women’s Day, it’s worth reminding ourselves that the gigantic incomes of the financial elite and the low incomes of nurses have little to do with merit — or even the workings of a “free market” — and a lot to do with who gets to make the rules.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Feminism’s second-wave hangover
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
March 7, 2011
On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, I find myself profoundly ambivalent about feminism. On the one hand, I owe it a huge debt of gratitude. Without feminists winning the right to vote, study, and work, I likely wouldn’t be writing this column… But, given the choice, a majority of women would prefer not to work full time when they have children.
Tags: child care, economy, participation, standard of living, women
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Lack of child care costing Canada: report
Monday, March 7th, 2011
March 6, 2011
The YWCA’s report — called Educated, Employed and Equal: The economic prosperity case for national child care — notes the number of women employed in Canada more than doubled between 1976 and 2009, to more than 7.7 million… Volumes of research show that quality child care helps children become lifelong learners, supports the social needs of families and is a powerful tool in reducing child poverty, the report says. It can also help drive the economy. A recent Canadian study on the cost-benefit of public investment in quality child care shows a return of $2.54 for every dollar invested.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Spaces must be affordable
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Feb 21 2011
…some Toronto neighbourhoods have no child-care spaces available at all; others have spaces that no one can afford. There are 17,000 kids waiting for the chance to get one of the city’s 24,000 child-care subsidies… The last time Toronto comprehensively addressed the problem was in 1997 when an expert panel recommended that “quality, regulated child care should be available to all parents who need it.”… But ultimately, the property tax base will never stretch to cover the expansion in affordable service that is so desperately needed. Queen’s Park and Ottawa must come to the table for that.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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