By: Derek Sankey Efforts to get more female students into science and engineering fields, where they make up on average just 17.5 per cent nationally, are gradually working to boost those numbers through a variety of mentoring and awareness programs. At the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering, women comprise 25 per cent of [...]
International Women’s Day: A Power Conversation
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011International Women’s Day is a good time to talk about power. Do women of the world want to take power away from men? Is power a zero-sum game? ‘Power’ is a loaded word. In the hundreds of management and leadership texts published every year, and in the thousands of speeches delivered by corporate CEOs, heads [...]
Dem. Rep. of Congo: Women Working in Gold mines
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010By: Georgina Cranston, in Guardian (UK) An audio slide show telling the story of women working in gold mines, their poverty & effects on their health. http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/1003387
Equality nudge needed at home
Friday, April 7th, 2006by Donna Kennedy-Glans The progress and celebration of egalitarianism in the Muslim world affords those of us in the West another chance to consider what equality of opportunity for men and women can look like in our own homes, offices and communities. Bridges Social Development, a Calgary-based humanitarian organization, offers training to women in the [...]
Muslim Cartoons: A right, or assault on dignity? Provocation is no way to defend democracy
Sunday, February 12th, 2006by Donna Kennedy-Glans Integrity dilemmas are inevitable, particularly in a globalizing world. There are always times when two or more values conflict. The publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers, and subsequently in other media, is justified by some as an exercise of the right of free speech. The value being protected is [...]