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Ending the year on a positive note!!

For some time now, I have been observing a trend in what I read in the newspapers and other reports which implies things are moving in a positive direction for the women of the world. And it seems to be happening to women in every part of the world and in a huge variety of undertakings. This positive direction doesn’t mean women everywhere are living in the way we might like them to be, in terms of their daily life experience, far from it. It simply means in the words of Buffalo Springfield “Something’s happening here!” Something which gives me hope!! I thought sharing some of these hopeful glimmers with you would be a perfect way to say we have ...

A New Voice

I have been reading Leah Eichler’s column Women@Work in the Globe since she began writing them in September 2011. She is a new and very welcome voice in the paper and I have enjoyed reading many of her columns. They are well written and well researched and cover many of the topics near and dear to my heart. For example:   On  October 1, 2011 Leah wrote a column “Why we need the metrics on women’s climb to the top” which included several great comments from Barbara Annis of Barbara Annis & Associates in New York, Beatrix Dart of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Deborah Gillis of Catalyst. I wont’ repeat these comments here because it would cause ...