From founding the White Ribbon Campaign, the world’s largest organized effort of men working to end violence against women, in the early 1990s, to his appointment as the only male member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council,...
Sex discrimination against women
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Author:Kaufman, MichaelSummary: -
Author:O'Brien, RuthSummary:"Few of the countless real-life stories of workplace discrimination suffered by men and women every day are ever told publicly. This book boldly and eloquently rights that wrong, going where no plaintiff testimony could ever dare...
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Author:Pao, EllenSummary:The "necessary and incisive" (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times) LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL...
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Author:Armstrong, SallySummary:The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental...
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Author:Summary:Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting...
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Author:Driedger, DianeSummary:This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their...
- Author:Criado-Perez, CarolineSummary:
Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more.
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A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers-including...
- Author:Hooks, BellSummary:
What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks...
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Author:Lopez-Claros, Augusto, Nakhjavani, BahiyyihSummary:Equality for Women = Prosperity for All by Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a groundbreaking audiobook about the direct relationship between a woman's rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of her country. The...
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Author:McIntyre, Sheila, Sheehy, ElizabethSummary:Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association....
- Author:Singh, RinaSummary:
A boy grows up to bring positive change to his village in India. This story is true, and it started with a boy named Sundar. After the deaths of his mother, and later his daughter, Sundar Paliwal knows what he has to do. He is...
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Author:NOLEN, StephanieSummary:In 1959, the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's first astronauts concluded that women might actually be better for the job. After testing the top female pilots in the United States, Dr Randy Lovelace selected thirteen...
