Our Advocacy Work and Women in politics
March 15th, 2023
Published in the Toronto Star Decades of research make clear that ensuring women’s voices are integrated into decision-making in every arena delivers better outcomes. Women are being silenced, violated and gaslit. And not just in Sarah Polley’s brilliant, Oscar-nominated film, “Women Talking.” In recent weeks, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Scotland First […]
read more...The ongoing commitment to ensure women’s voices are heard
Our Advocacy Work and Women in politics
January 30th, 2023
Chutzpah and humility are a rare but precious combination. It takes the first to run for Prime Minister at 37. It takes the second to have the self-awareness to bow out after six years — despite earning international accolades for leading through a pandemic, mass murder and volcanic eruption — because you’ve candidly assessed your […]
read more...What we can learn from Jacinda Ardern
Our Advocacy Work
August 31st, 2022
Does watching the video footage of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her female colleagues being verbally attacked by a 250-pound belligerent bully make your heart race? (You’re probably a woman.) Although my own political confrontation with an angry and self-righteous crowd happened more than 20 years ago, and my boss was the object of […]
read more...The “verbal attack” on Chrystia Freeland deters us all
Our Advocacy Work
August 9th, 2022
Charlotte, light of my life, is 7. Her fearless physicality, fierce devotion to her brothers, and clarity about her artist’s soul… these are just three of the things that make my heart ache when I think about the many ways the world she is inheriting will fail to deliver what she deserves. But one of […]
read more...For Charlotte’s sake, say NO to the status quo
Master Media Engagement
August 25th, 2020
The prospect of being interviewed on live radio or television makes many participants in our workshops nervous. But none of them have had to negotiate the kind of high-wire crossing in real time performed by our newly appointed Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland. And she has, time and again, demonstrated her qualifications as — in radio […]
read more...10 Lessons from listening to Chrystia Freeland, a seriously “good talker”
Our Advocacy Work
September 12th, 2019
Can snowplowing be sexist? Even if you live in Ottawa, a city that removes snow from its downtown core with military precision, you’ve probably never asked yourself that. Until I read Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women – Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, it had never occurred to me to pose the question […]
read more...Democracy needs women; snowplowing policy proves it
Our Advocacy Work
April 12th, 2017
Vancouver Sun by Stu McNish 08 April 2017 This week’s Conversation That Matters features Shari Graydon of Informed Opinions, which strives to amplify women’s voices to ensure women’s perspectives and priorities play an equal role in Canadian society. Graydon regrets that in 2017, women remain under-represented, as experts in the media, while men provide the lion’s […]
read more...Conversations that matter: For women in media, it’s still a man’s world
Our Advocacy Work
May 2nd, 2014
(The following op ed was published in the Globe and Mail‘s online edition yesterday to help launch #respectHER, a joint campaign of Equal Voice and Informed Opinions.) At least some of the audience’s weeping was laughter-induced. But it was hard to tell how much. At the front of the conference room, former B.C. cabinet minister, […]
read more...Parliament is still Mad Men territory for women
