Monday, August 30, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/fashion/27love.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
MODERN LOVE
By AYELET WALDMAN
Published: March 27, 2005
HAVE been in many mothers' groups - Mommy and Me, Gymboree, Second-Time Moms - and each time, within three minutes, the conversation invariably comes around to the topic of how often mommy feels compelled to put out. Everyone wants to be reassured that no one else is having sex either. These are women who, for the most part, are comfortable with their bodies, consider themselves sexual beings. These are women who love their husbands or partners. Still, almost none of them are having any sex.
Truly, Madly, Guiltily
Published: March 27, 2005
HAVE been in many mothers' groups - Mommy and Me, Gymboree, Second-Time Moms - and each time, within three minutes, the conversation invariably comes around to the topic of how often mommy feels compelled to put out. Everyone wants to be reassured that no one else is having sex either. These are women who, for the most part, are comfortable with their bodies, consider themselves sexual beings. These are women who love their husbands or partners. Still, almost none of them are having any sex.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Our Inner Lives: Spirit, Faith, Action
http://feminist.com/ourinnerlives/
Our Inner Lives seeks to be a space for the unified expression of women’s inner and outer lives. Some of us are happy to shout our feminist principles of social and cultural empowerment from the rooftops, but we hush up when it comes to discussions around the role faith plays in our lives behind closed doors. Others of us wear our faith or our religious practice on our sleeves (for some - like clergy - literally!), but don’t discuss our deep internal commitment to women’s full equality in all sectors of life and society.
Our Inner Lives seeks to be a space for the unified expression of women’s inner and outer lives. Some of us are happy to shout our feminist principles of social and cultural empowerment from the rooftops, but we hush up when it comes to discussions around the role faith plays in our lives behind closed doors. Others of us wear our faith or our religious practice on our sleeves (for some - like clergy - literally!), but don’t discuss our deep internal commitment to women’s full equality in all sectors of life and society.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Outraged Moms, Trashy Daughters
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/10/outraged-moms-trashy-daughters/
Outraged moms, trashy daughters
How did those steeped in the women’s lib movement produce girls who think being a sex object is powerful?
Bennett Raglin/ Getty Images/ Cole Garside
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Report Reveals Gender Gap in University Professors' Salaries
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Report+reveals+gender+university+professor+salaries/3382088/story.html
Male professors at Canadian universities on average earn higher salaries than their female colleagues — with the discrepancy reaching more than $20,000 at some institutions, according to numbers released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.
The average salary of a full-time, male teaching-staff member at the University of Toronto, excluding medical and dental faculty members, is $20,362 higher than a female teaching-staff member also working full time, says data from 2008 and 2009.
The University of Calgary has the second-largest gap, with male teaching staff earning $20,147 more than female professors.
The report, drawn from the annual University and College Academic Staff Survey, lists the full-time teaching staff salaries and salary scales at universities and colleges in Canada that have a staff of 100 or more.
Other schools reported similar discrepancies: University of British Columbia ($16,559), Dalhousie University ($16,162), Royal Military College of Canada ($16,035) University of Western Ontario ($15,933), University of Lethbridge ($15,675) and McGill University ($15,082).
University officials, however, say these pay discrepancies aren't a sign of bias but instead the result of former hiring practices that favoured men, the age and rank of professors and the distribution of men and women in different disciplines.
"Certainly, when you actually factor in all those variables then, in fact, the gender differences in salary largely disappear," said Edith Hillan, vice-provost, faculty and academic life, at the University of Toronto.
Fields such as business, computer science and engineering tend to pay more and are dominated by men, while female-dominated fields, like social sciences and the humanities, pay less.
"In general, when you look at the data, unfortunately, I think it's probably only about 18 to 20 per cent of all full professors (are) women across Canada," Hillan said. "In a sense . . . a lot of it is the result of hiring practices in the past.
"We actually think at (the University of Toronto) we're doing pretty well. Over the last few years, through a very proactive recruitment process, we've got up to the 50-per-cent mark in terms of woman hires. But most of them are going to be at junior ranks, because that's the way the bulk of our professors come in."
While there may be more women than ever teaching at universities, Hillan said, many are assistant or associate professors — positions that pay less than a full professor job.
"The one thing I would have to emphasize is you can't look at gender in isolation," she said. "You've got to consider other variables as well."
These numbers reflect that 20 years ago, most teaching jobs at universities were occupied by men, said David Robinson, from the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
"A lot of women in the profession are now making their way through," he said. "That's one of the biggest distortions that causes an overall gender gap."
The association does its own analysis of pay discrepancies between the two genders, whereby they factor in age and rank, Robinson said.
Their findings indicate the pay gap is currently about five per cent.
"Women are making about 95 to 96 per cent of what men are making," he said. "That's still a significant gap when you think about it and we can't explain it."
Universities and colleges with smaller salary gaps include Acadia University ($5,472), St. Thomas University ($4,429) Universite de Quebec a Montreal ($3,772) and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique ($2,033).
SIDE:
How the gender gap pays out in other schools:
University of Victoria: $11,526
University of Northern B.C.: $7,590
Simon Fraser University: $13,095
—
University of Alberta: $14,877
—
University of Saskatchewan: $9,807
University of Regina: $9,453
—
University of Winnipeg: $9,835
University of Manitoba: $13,904
—
Carleton University: $13,354
University of Ottawa: $7,899
University of Windsor: $11,719
Male professors at Canadian universities on average earn higher salaries than their female colleagues — with the discrepancy reaching more than $20,000 at some institutions, according to numbers released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.
The average salary of a full-time, male teaching-staff member at the University of Toronto, excluding medical and dental faculty members, is $20,362 higher than a female teaching-staff member also working full time, says data from 2008 and 2009.
The University of Calgary has the second-largest gap, with male teaching staff earning $20,147 more than female professors.
The report, drawn from the annual University and College Academic Staff Survey, lists the full-time teaching staff salaries and salary scales at universities and colleges in Canada that have a staff of 100 or more.
Other schools reported similar discrepancies: University of British Columbia ($16,559), Dalhousie University ($16,162), Royal Military College of Canada ($16,035) University of Western Ontario ($15,933), University of Lethbridge ($15,675) and McGill University ($15,082).
University officials, however, say these pay discrepancies aren't a sign of bias but instead the result of former hiring practices that favoured men, the age and rank of professors and the distribution of men and women in different disciplines.
"Certainly, when you actually factor in all those variables then, in fact, the gender differences in salary largely disappear," said Edith Hillan, vice-provost, faculty and academic life, at the University of Toronto.
Fields such as business, computer science and engineering tend to pay more and are dominated by men, while female-dominated fields, like social sciences and the humanities, pay less.
"In general, when you look at the data, unfortunately, I think it's probably only about 18 to 20 per cent of all full professors (are) women across Canada," Hillan said. "In a sense . . . a lot of it is the result of hiring practices in the past.
"We actually think at (the University of Toronto) we're doing pretty well. Over the last few years, through a very proactive recruitment process, we've got up to the 50-per-cent mark in terms of woman hires. But most of them are going to be at junior ranks, because that's the way the bulk of our professors come in."
While there may be more women than ever teaching at universities, Hillan said, many are assistant or associate professors — positions that pay less than a full professor job.
"The one thing I would have to emphasize is you can't look at gender in isolation," she said. "You've got to consider other variables as well."
These numbers reflect that 20 years ago, most teaching jobs at universities were occupied by men, said David Robinson, from the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
"A lot of women in the profession are now making their way through," he said. "That's one of the biggest distortions that causes an overall gender gap."
The association does its own analysis of pay discrepancies between the two genders, whereby they factor in age and rank, Robinson said.
Their findings indicate the pay gap is currently about five per cent.
"Women are making about 95 to 96 per cent of what men are making," he said. "That's still a significant gap when you think about it and we can't explain it."
Universities and colleges with smaller salary gaps include Acadia University ($5,472), St. Thomas University ($4,429) Universite de Quebec a Montreal ($3,772) and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique ($2,033).
SIDE:
How the gender gap pays out in other schools:
University of Victoria: $11,526
University of Northern B.C.: $7,590
Simon Fraser University: $13,095
—
University of Alberta: $14,877
—
University of Saskatchewan: $9,807
University of Regina: $9,453
—
University of Winnipeg: $9,835
University of Manitoba: $13,904
—
Carleton University: $13,354
University of Ottawa: $7,899
University of Windsor: $11,719
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