Reading Time: 2 minutesMany professional athletes also feel that the femininity and therefore the validity of a woman is questioned the minute she enters sports. As former Olympic gold medallist in downhill skiing Kerrin Lee-Gartner identifies, the competitiveness needed to compete is celebrated among young boys, but frowned upon for young girls.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarketplace found that staff at several top restaurant chains were routinely pressured into wearing revealing uniforms. This is a travesty, and this is why the policy paper’s recommendations should be adopted as soon as possible.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe workshop, which took place on March 4, was hosted by Sam Whittle, a registered social worker and the owner of Venus Envy Ottawa. Whittle is a queer woman herself and has dealt with intimate partner abuse in the past, making it an issue close to her heart.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen women face discomfort or pain at work, should companies give them time off—with no assurance that the manager will still act fairly towards them—or ensure that management is sensitive to women’s issues when allowing time off?
Reading Time: 2 minutesEqual Voice uOttawa collaborated with the UESA to have a more relaxed event than they normally do, as well as to reach out to a wider variety of students. The night began with a poetry open mic, where three poets read original poetry to the intimate crowd.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlternative Waves features contributions from many of the WRC’s volunteers this semester. The zine has different forms of content, from a list concerning “Consent Culture at Clubs & Parties”, to an essay entitled “Gender and Transformation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough the title may be off-putting to some, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend might be the most feminist show on television at the moment. It continuously critiques inequality, especially the sexist tropes that are common to most romantic comedies. The show also delves into other issues, such as mental illness, all while staying light-hearted with numerous catchy songs each episode.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHuman Rights Watch is an NGO that conducts research and advocacy missions concerning human rights around the world. Muscati focuses on the impact of conflicts and human rights violations on civilians, specifically women and girls.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow this year’s Academy Awards were more than just your typical Hollywood glitz and glam show.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow one Ottawa U alumni took it in her own hands to raise awareness of violence against women for V-Day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLong time friends and coworkers share what it’s like being women in the Ottawa music scene.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJessica Eritou proves how two award shows can change the media’s perception of women in a matter of 12 hours.
Reading Time: 3 minutesClaiming the existence of “social, institutional, and academic misandry” but distinguishing himself from ideologues, Avila unwittingly illustrated the tactics of rape culture — by denying swaths of evidence of institutionalized oppression of women and even attempting to flip the script.
Reading Time: 4 minutesClapping, chanting, and a vuvuzela interrupted University of Ottawa professor Janice Fiamengo and her speech on “men’s issues and feminism’s double standards” on March 28, causing a loud feud between participants and protestors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can change more minds with a debate than with a noisemaker.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe logic behind the test is extremely short-sighted, since it is primarily concerned with gauging the quantity of female representation in a film, while offering absolutely no judgment whatsoever on the quality of this representation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s an anti-movement going on right now, and it’s subtler than you think. This movement is our fear of feminism.
Reading Time: 8 minutesSECTION 28 OF the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms reads, “Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.” Section 15 of the Charter asserts Canadians are to be free from discrimination based on their sex. More women are holding high-level positions …
