- Kudos to NDP Labour Critic Chris Charlton for introducing a private member’s bill in the House of Commons to protect laid-off new moms.
- Love pork but hate what the swine flu has done to its image? Don’t worry! A rebranding is being considered!
- Are you among the happiest women in Canada?
- Burlesque is hot–and there’s a Vancouver festival to prove it.
- Broadsides reminds us that yesterday, our neighbours to the south celebrated Equal Pay Day! But they don’t have it yet and neither do we (in fact, it’s gotten worse). Sucks.
- Want your vehicle’s license plate to read “testicles”? To beat provincial censors you may need to request it in Italian.
- And finally…Reuters asks: Would we be in this financial pickle had more women been in charge? Opinions, dear readers?
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Haaar! The article about the verboten license plates totally had me in stitches!
The pay gap info sucks for sure. In the UK, a bill has been brought forward to force companies to disclose the wage gap between their male and female employees. Read more about it here: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/04/27/ap6341146.html
Yeah, I’d love to think that having more women in positions of power would have made a difference, but I think women are just as susceptible to greed as men are – and that’s what got us here. It was a giant frenzy; they were taking risks to make big bucks, and that really has nothing to do with gender. I’m not even sure that the arguments that women are unlikely to take extreme risk and provide a more balanced viewpoint would hold up for too long. It’s a nice thought though.
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