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The Ascent Of Women

Sally Armstrong | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Living
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Sally Armstrong

The earth is shifting. A new age is dawning. From Kabul and Cairo to Cape Town and New York, women are claiming their space at home, at work and in the public square. They are propelling changes so immense they're likely to affect intractable issues such as poverty, interstate conflict, culture and religion, and the power brokers are finally listening.

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Since When Is Just Being a Mother Shameful?

Kerry Sauriol | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada British Columbia
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Kerry Sauriol

Think on how many times you have heard clarifications to the "I'm just a stay at home mom" statement. "Oh but I volunteer too!" "I sell Tupperware!" "I have a blog!" The "us against them," view of feminism that Elizabeth Wurtzel preaches in a recent issue of Atlantic denigrates men and women. It is inflammatory and scandalizing without offering any sort of solution.

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HBO's "Girls" -- Is it Really Less Humiliating Now Than it Was in the '50s?

Elizabeth Kantor | Posted 06.30.2012 | Canada
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Elizabeth Kantor

The publicity material for Girls, the HBO series that claims to be "a pop culture mirror" reflecting the real lives of 20-somethings in New York. Surely the most benighted pre-liberation '50-style womanhood couldn't be any more humiliating than the conditions that liberated modern women routinely tolerate today.

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The #WomenOf2012 On What Matters To Them

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 03.11.2012 | Canada Living
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March 8, 2012 marks the 101st anniversary of International Women's Day -- the first step into more than a century spent honouring the various contribu...

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