Michaëlle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, was interviewed by Aaron Wherry for the 14Jan 2008 Maclean’s magazine: Canadians Get Their Very Own Oprah (although I was disappointed to find the article about a leading Canadian woman a bit buried on the Maclean’s site) . In this article, she shared some of her strategies for [...]
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Catherine Morgan has been creating a list of women who blog about politics — and she’s up to 200 and counting!
To see her list, pop over to her Informed Voters blog.
Following the creation of her list, she started a whole new blog called the Political Voices of Women to give women political bloggers another platform [...]
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I have to say that I’m posting this having a history of a very conflicted relationship with clothes.
And I get very frustrated when I want to read about a woman candidate’s political vision and what I get is a blow-by-blow of what she was wearing and how her hair was done. Or not.
But I also [...]
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It’s “common knowledge” that women tend to talk more than men.
The common stereotype has the woman chatting away to a silent man — the implied message being that women fill the airwaves with non-critical information while men are able to respond efficiently by cutting to the chase, making every word count.
But is this picture really [...]
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I’ve been seeing a lot of stories recently about women getting involved in politics for the first time or choosing to move to a “higher” level of representation. I thought I would share some of these profiles as I find it inspiring that these women are “taking the leap” in spite of their recognition that [...]
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