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October 28th, 2021The following op ed, co-authored with Prashanth Rao and Dr. Maite Taboada, appeared on Poynter‘s website on 28 October 2021. Looking for silver linings in the midst of a pandemic […]
read more...What do three years of data on the gender gap in news reporting tell us?Diversity Belonging + Inclusion
August 11th, 2021Lori Campbell, newly appointed Associate Vice President, Indigenous Engagement, at the University of Regina has a long history of advocacy. A survivor of the infamous “Sixties Scoop”, she has […]
read more...Giving media interviews through trauma — and giving back to communityDiversity 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 menOur Advocacy Work
February 25th, 2020In the 10 years since Informed Opinions began training women across sectors and fields to share their insights and analysis with the media, we’ve delivered almost 250 workshops to more […]
read more...More women’s voices shaping Canada’s public conversationsOur Advocacy Work
March 8th, 2019Business people, bureaucrats and board members, researchers, equality advocates and journalists — that’s who showed up on February 4th at Ottawa’s Rideau Club for the launch of the Gender Gap Tracker. […]
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February 11th, 2019This article was originally published in The Ottawa Citizen We hear a lot these days about how artificial intelligence is taking away jobs and making it easy for foreign powers to […]
read more...In numbers there is strength – how big data can help close the gender gap in Canadian journalismOur Advocacy Work
February 5th, 2019This article was originally published in The Toronto Star Could the incentivizing power of a fitness tracker be adapted to help achieve gender equality in the media, enhancing Canadian democracy in […]
read more...Online tool gives media outlets incentive to achieve gender parityOur Advocacy Work and Uncategorized
December 4th, 2018Did you hear about the woman who left her small fortune to a potted plant because it was “the only thing that listened to her”? As relatable as the sentiment […]
read more...How will we spend the $1 trillion coming our way?Our Advocacy Work
October 3rd, 2017This conversation should be over: The business case for drawing on the entire talent pool is now unassailable — dozens of studies over more than two decades make clear that […]
read more...What Gets Measured Gets Done – #WGMGDOur 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 world