Attitudes towards climate policies partly depend on a consideration of future, as yet unborn, descendants. Women tended to show more ability to think about how future generations could benefit.
Palestinian women react after their home was hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. In Gaza and elsewhere, an effective feminist foreign aid policy needs political action to address root causes of poverty, violence and sexual and reproductive harm.
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Canada’s tepid response to the war in Gaza and the severe harm caused to Palestinian women casts doubt on the sincerity of the government’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.
Women spinning and socialising. From Augustine’s La Cité de Dieu.
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There should be a standard policy across all South African universities related to recognition of prior learning as a criterion for entrance.
Immigrant women disproportionately work caring for children, elderly adults and people living with disabilities. At the same time, immigrant care workers earn low incomes and experience precarious employment.
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Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
Women are just as interested in opportunities for advancement as men are. However, they find them less attainable because of their busy schedules.
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We will waste the potential of the pandemic if we don’t address the inequalities — specifically the gender inequalities — that it exacerbated and revealed.
A portrait of Wollstonecraft painted by John Opie in 1790-91.
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Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
This year, the Canadian government’s theme for International Women’s Day is ‘Every Woman Counts.’ But how does this message translate into action?
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Days of international observance recognize challenges facing marginalized groups or society as a whole, draw attention to them and create unity and mobilization around those problems.
Women protested to ‘end the sausage party’ at the AACTA awards in 2016.
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Feminist movements are giving women a louder voice than ever, but those at the top of their game are routinely expected to deal with abuse and threats of violence.
Investment rating companies are measuring the environmental, social and governance impact of businesses. This International Women’s Day, we should be pushing them to do the same for gender equity.
Yoga, manifesting, and #livingyourbestlife may sound empowering. But wellness blames women, sets them up for failure, and hides the real challenges women face.