Our Advocacy Work and Women in politics
March 15th, 2023Published 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 […]
read more...The ongoing commitment to ensure women’s voices are heardOur Advocacy Work and Women in politics
January 30th, 2023Chutzpah 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 […]
read more...What we can learn from Jacinda ArdernOur Advocacy Work
August 31st, 2022Does 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.) […]
read more...The “verbal attack” on Chrystia Freeland deters us allOur Advocacy Work
August 9th, 2022Charlotte, 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 […]
read more...For Charlotte’s sake, say NO to the status quoOur Advocacy Work
September 27th, 2021The following op ed first appeared on The Toronto Star‘s website (17 September 2021) and in the print version (20 September 2021). The argument I make below is one we’re […]
read more...Let’s make this the last election in which our voices, realities, leadership capacities are absent, marginalizedDiversity Belonging + Inclusion
March 10th, 2021(Originally published in The Hill Times 15 February 2021) When Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet in January, he retained the gender balance that earned him headlines back in 2015. No […]
read more...It’s not radical to expect political parties to field as many women candidates as menMaster Media Engagement
August 25th, 2020The 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 […]
read more...10 Lessons from listening to Chrystia Freeland, a seriously “good talker”Our Advocacy Work
September 12th, 2019Can 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 more...Democracy needs women; snowplowing policy proves itOur Advocacy Work
April 12th, 2017Vancouver 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 […]
read more...Conversations that matter: For women in media, it’s still a man’s worldOur 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 […]
read more...Parliament is still Mad Men territory for women