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Equity Issues – Podcasts

By admin | June 3rd, 2010

May 30 Closing the Gender Wage Gap: Provincial perspectives on pay equity May 31 Local and Global Social Justice Movements June 1 The Status of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women 40 Years On In Conversation: The status of women 40 years on June 2 Women and Leadership in the Age of Obama

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Closing the Gender Gap: Provincial Perspectives

By admin | June 2nd, 2010

On May 31, pay equity experts from across Canada gathered at Congress to share their research, knowledge and experiences. Pat Armstrong (Professor of Sociology, York University) moderated this session with Emanuela Heynick (Ontario Pay Equity Commissioner), Louise Marchand (Présidente, Commission de l’équité salariale du Québec), Nitya Iyer (partner at Heenan Blaikie, and Equal Pay Commissioner [...]

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Linking technology, intersectionality and surveillance: discussing with Shoshana Magnet

By admin | May 30th, 2010

Following her presentation Stripping for Security? Sexism, Racism, Transphobia and Backscatter X-Rays, Shoshana Magnet explains the paradoxes emerging as this new technology takes over our airports. She found another example of the institutionalized forms of violence towards certain communities, especially trans populations. In this video she shares the findings of the research that she conducted [...]

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