F-email Fightback Returns

The F-email Fightback blogger has just returned from a week in Germany so we are digesting some of the news that we have missed and will then be returning to a "post per day for equality":

• Two women too few: advisory council The chair of the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women says she's disappointed only two women were named to the 11-member cabinet on Tuesday. ...


• Only two women in cabinet 'shocks' Status of Women During the election campaign, Liberal Party president Sean Casey asked the Advisory Council on the Status of Women to recognize that the Liberals had ...


• Women's agency a victim of changing priorities: report Status of Women Canada, the country's main agency for women's equality, seems to have been on the verge of imploding even ...


• Early learning key to success Bourgeois spoke of her concern that there still is no national child-care policy in Canada. “It’s not about babysitting,” she said. ...


• Quebec introduces 'Anastasia's Law' “This bill restricts the possession of all firearms on the grounds and the buildings of educational institutions and child-care facilities,” Quebec Public ...


• P&G serves up a menu of benefits to staff - literally "As the concept of work/life balance has taken hold in Corporate Canada, stressed-out workers are looking to their employers to help them juggle all of ...


• Office Politics: Life-changing transitions supported at work (Nova Scotia) Nearly 24% of parents who did not return to work said it was for financial reasons, stating that child care services were too expensive to be worth the cost ...


• More fathers taking time off after birth Low fertility rates are a significant concern in Canada, she said, but government policies don't make it easy for anyone to juggle child care, career, ...


• More dads taking time off when babies arrive: StatsCan The cost of child care made the decision for 24 per cent of parents who did not return to work. These parents tended to be part-time workers and had less ...


• Federal benefit underutilized by those caring for the dying Introduced by Ottawa three years ago, the Compassionate Care Benefits program was to pay Employment Insurance to caregivers for up to six weeks. ...


• Gender gap remains The Amherst Daily - It’s unfortunate in a country that likes to consider itself progressive when it comes to gender equality, people are still paid differently based on their ...


• Stephen Lewis slams G8 (Globe and Mail) Mr. Lewis also told the conference that the G8 is deficient in dealing with gender equality, an issue he said drives pandemics in Africa. ...


• Women of the Métis Nation will be an Active ...Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jun 14, 2007 Women of the Métis Nation will be sending ten delegates to participate in this historic meeting between Aboriginal women, provincial and territorial ...