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blogcutterMy donation for today goes to Informed Opinions, an organization based here in Ottawa dedicated to "amplifying women's voices to achieve gender balance in media by 2025."
https://informedopinions.org
The site is well worth a visit - the organization has a lot of smart people behind it and there's a lot of exciting research going on.
Gender-based discrimination may take many different forms and may be purposeful or systemic. I wonder if it is any accident that we talk about third-wave feminism just as we talk about "waves" of a virus like Covid-19? When people turn to Google and Facebook for all their "news", a whole range of diverse human viewpoints is lost. We even risk losing touch with the local perspective and our own physical/ geographic community, especially during a lockdown.
One theme that has emerged recently is how women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. There is talk of an economic "she-cession" and the perhaps vain hope of a "she-covery". Here is one example out of B.C.:
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/the-she-cession-reality/Content?oid=15481844
and another one from Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/6907589/canada-coronavirus-she-session/
We'll have to see how it all plays out.
https://informedopinions.org
The site is well worth a visit - the organization has a lot of smart people behind it and there's a lot of exciting research going on.
Gender-based discrimination may take many different forms and may be purposeful or systemic. I wonder if it is any accident that we talk about third-wave feminism just as we talk about "waves" of a virus like Covid-19? When people turn to Google and Facebook for all their "news", a whole range of diverse human viewpoints is lost. We even risk losing touch with the local perspective and our own physical/ geographic community, especially during a lockdown.
One theme that has emerged recently is how women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. There is talk of an economic "she-cession" and the perhaps vain hope of a "she-covery". Here is one example out of B.C.:
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/the-she-cession-reality/Content?oid=15481844
and another one from Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/6907589/canada-coronavirus-she-session/
We'll have to see how it all plays out.
