Want to raise GDP? Get more women working.
Great article about how more women participating in the workforce – and in politics – leads to good things. “Don’t envy us our oil, envy us our women,” said Dag Terje Andersen during a recent visit to...
View ArticleThe sexism in comic books sucks.
This was a sad article to read: Kerpow! Women kick back at the comic book industry. Not only have the numbers of women working in the comic industry declined, but many women who go to comic conferences...
View ArticleMore Women in Science—and Advertising—Will Help the Wold
Improving gender equality in science is essential to increasing the quality of science. Extensive research shows the positive effect of gender balance in workplaces, the contributions of women to the...
View ArticleEscape the cult of the average.
Normal is merely average. Let’s move the average up. Happiness Harvard Style Change the lens you see the world with. Get happy first – success follows. It’s called positive psychology. And this is how...
View ArticleAfraid of a 14 year old girl?
Her message is so strong and threatening to someone’s world view, that they dared wipe it out. in Pakistan, a gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school and shot a young girl Malala...
View ArticleEddie Obeng at Ted
Great and funny presentation on how the world changed 15 years ago, while we were sleeping … and we didn’t notice. We’re still are working the old way – but it’s all obsolete now. The world is...
View ArticleD’uh #Masculism – blame patriarchy, not feminism.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkzBFV5jaX0&feature=share&list=UUMd2_S26D8RzBepSOlMmEGg Here’s a good video on the #Masculism meme on twitter by my new YouTube discovery, Mod Primate. Watch...
View ArticleWhen good guys go bad: TED … are you still “open”?
All things change. Has the “TED experience” jumped the shark and become … a controlling institution? I’ve never been to TED, but I do love watching the videos. Recently, this week the Internet is abuzz...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg’s Tip for Women: Sit at the Table.
When I was in Ukraine visiting my dad’s family in 1992, the women never sat at the dinner table once. They spent all the time in the kitchen, cooking, cleaning up, preparing. The men sat at the table,...
View ArticleQuestion everything, even the CBC
CBC edited a doc for fear of libel and/or litigation. From Jesse Brown at Canadaland (the guy who broke the Jian Ghomeshi story) “So there you have it. The CBC pulled a documentary from the air when a...
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