equality
Women deserve an equal opportunity, not an equal outcome
EIC March 23, 2015[caption id="attachment_1794" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Unesco[/caption] I’ve been labelled my whole life. Every kid gets labelled eventually, and my labels were “smartypants,” “genius,” “math whiz,” and “computer geek.” I lived, ate, dreamed, and breathed science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Understandably, I found my calling in mechatronics. The one label I was never branded was “just a girl.” Once I eventually figured out that I was a cute girl and developed a sexual identity, it was something I kept mentally separate from the genderless world of STEM. I had never experienced anything indicative of being disadvantaged as a…
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SFU’s fitness centre should remove its women-only hours
EIC March 16, 2015[caption id="attachment_1161" align="alignnone" width="750"] Photo Credit: Fast + Epp[/caption] Two law students at McGill, Soumia Allalou and Raymond Grafton, recently approached their university student union about creating women-only hours at McGill’s fitness center. Their proposal was met with widespread criticism,…
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