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Category Archives: Women
Women, confidence, and salary negotiations
Salary negotiations, what’s that? A headline in Toronto’s Globe and Mail the other day reminded me of my own history in salary negotiations: What Young Women Need to Know About Salary Negotiations. On the very same morning that I … Continue reading
Posted in Women
Tagged confidence, employment, salary levels, salary negotiation, self-confidence, women
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Mother’s Day: appreciation, but no glorification, please!
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there and all others who play a significant mothering/nurturing/supporting role for children, especially young children. Well, and especially teenagers, too! My husband and I have been blessed in the mother department. Both our … Continue reading
Thoughtful Thursday: thoughts for women only
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Women making history during a global pandemic
I know that Halloween rules this weekend, and hopefully treat-or-treaters everywhere will be able to costume up and get out and gather bags of treats. However, I just discovered yesterday that along with Thanksgiving (in Canada) and Halloween, October in … Continue reading
My self-imposed challenge: who have been the most significant contributors to making the world a better place to live
I have to admit it; once I began my exploration of which individuals throughout history might qualify as candidates for the quest I described in my post last week [The greatest _______ (fill in the blank); how do we decide … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Just wondering, Women
Tagged Eglantyne Jebb, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emmeline Pankhurst, greatest contributors, inspiration, Janusz Korczak, Kate Sheppard, Malala Yousafzai, Nellie McClung, rights of children, rights of women, Save the Children, sffrage movement, suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony
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Canada’s most closely guarded secret: October is Women’s History Month
OK, all of you readers who are Canadian women, raise your hand if you knew that October is Canada’s Women’s History Month, so almost over? I’m not raising my hand, or at least I wouldn’t have a few days ago. … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership, Women
Tagged Alice Munro, Beatrice Worsley, Canada, Canada's Women's History Month, Carrie Derick, Donna Strickland, Elizabeth Bagshaw, Emily Carr, Famous Five, feminism, history, Laura Secord, Persons Day, Roberta Bondar, science, Ursula Franklin, voting rights, Women's History Month, women’s rights
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Yes You Can!
Everyone deserves someone in their life to tell them “Yes you can”. Even better if everyone could have many, many people telling them that they can and should reach for the stars. But one voice alone can make all the … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Women
Tagged ability, achievment, dreams, encouragement, goals, Joan Feynman, kindness, positive, Richard Feynman, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, supportive
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Robby Robin's Journey 