Weekend Fem-links

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• Gender studies missing from high school despite alarming rates of sexual harassment and sexual assault of girls in Ontario
• Investment banker’s study says making it easier for women to enter paid workforce would solve many difficult social problems
• Over the past 10 years, the proportion of mothers who work part-time in Canada has dropped and the number who work full-time has increased.
• Colloquium featuring Martha Friendly and Linda White discussing early childhood education and care in Canada is available online for viewing.
• Australian social policy expert Deborah Brennan tours Canada. It's interesting to note that in Australia, the stay-at-home dad is, if not a myth, at least a rarity, as workforce statistics show women continue to shoulder the burden of child care in the home.
• The Female Eye Film Festival now running to March 30th in Toronto.
• Women’s advocacy organizations are once again gearing up for Edmonton’s annual Take Back the Night march
• In New Brunswick some 18% of all child support payments due through family court were not collected in 2006-2007. That represents about $9.5 million dollars...
• The N.B. Silent Witness Project, the first in Canada, launched in 2002, commemorates women killed in acts of domestic homicide since 1990, promoting awareness of family violence
• Women Need Apply - The Canadian federal government appoints hundreds to boards and commissions and they want more women to apply.
• Alternet writes about making connections between feminism and prison abolishionism
• Studies indicating that women are more prone to depression than men: it’s NOT the fault of feminism
• On pregnancy discrimination in the U.S. "Pregnancy-bias surged 14% last year, up 40% from a decade ago and the biggest annual increase in 13 years," reports the Wall Street Journal.
• A new study finds that women who describe themselves as feminists are more forgiving than other women when assessing the attractiveness of women who are either very underweight or very heavy," reports The New York Times. (You'll find the study in the journal Body Image; here are some previous studies on feminism and body image.)
• Recent headlines proclaim that "workplace bullying worse than sexual harassment." based on Canadian research