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Status of Women in Canada on International Women’s Day 2010
Judy Rebick, Ryerson University Guest Contributor It is International Women’s Day 2010, forty years after the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women . A generation has passed, my generation. In some ways, there has been a revolution in...
Children Matter: Equity and childcare on campus
Susan Prentice, University of Manitoba Guest Contributor Photo courtesy myfear on Flickr. Childcare politics are again a hot issue on Canadian campuses. In late November, a coalition of faculty, students and staff dissuaded the University of Victoria...
Gender equality and child development: Re-thinking family policy
Paul Kershaw, University of British Columbia Guest Contributor Forty years ago the Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended family policy innovation. It did so because the gender division of caregiving is a primary source of inequality for...
High educational aspirations of Visible Minority Immigrant Youth in Canada
Harvey Krahn and Alison Taylor, University of Alberta Guest Contributors Photo courtesy m00by on Flickr. The educational aspirations of 15-year-old Canadians are very high, while those of visible minority immigrant (VMI) youth 1 are even higher. Our...
First Nations Higher Education Aspirations in Canada
Tyrone McNeil, President of the First Nations Education Steering Committee, BC Guest Contributor 2009 marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child . This anniversary affords us all an important...