women
Study shows the response to COVID-19 in Canada disproportionately affects women
March 26, 2021Women are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to SFU health sciences research associate Dr. Julia Smith. A co-lead on the Gender and COVID-19 Project, Smith has been gathering data since the beginning of the pandemic to inform the policy response to COVID-19. The data revealed that frontline workers — the majority of whom are women — are overwhelmed with their work, mental health, and care work in the home. Smith explained responsibilities such as taking care of children and elders primarily fall on women. She said, “Women are giving up work so they can take care of children,…
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International Women’s Day needs to represent more than just cis women
March 6, 2021Every year on March 8 for International Women’s Day, social media platforms are flooded with variants of “go girl” posts, celebrating “strong, powerful, independent women.” While women have every right to celebrate the progression of their rights, why haven't we…
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What happens if the “Local Women in Your Area!” actually find you?
October 26, 2020Would you spend a devastating seven more bucks a month on a new streaming service for a show unavailable on Netflix, or do you risk some harmless little malware and maybe a housecall from the FBI on a pirating site?…
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World News Beats
October 26, 2018Ethiopian cabinet sees equal representation in sexes Women now hold 10 of Ethiopia’s 20 ministerial posts, making it the second African country after Rwanda to have a gender-balanced cabinet. In a Parliamentary speech on October 16 2018, Prime Minister…
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SFSS president accused of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations
September 7, 2018This article is part of a series discussing the leaked recording provided to The Peak by Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) president Jas Randhawa. The recording documents a meeting between executive members of the SFSS board of directors and…
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Leaked recording reveals turmoil within SFSS over Jas Randhawa’s presidency
August 31, 2018In his email to The Peak, stating that he was under pressure to resign as president of the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), Jas Randhawa attached a recording of a meeting held between himself and the executive members of…
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Badass women of SFU
March 7, 2018When SFU opened in 1965, only 37% of the student body was made up of women and only 16 of the 126 faculty staff were women (that’s about 12%). As of fall 2014, 13,000 of the 25,000 students were women…
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Workshop looks to break through role-playing game stereotypes
November 24, 2017An upcoming workshop for women and LGBATQ+ people is aiming to overcome stereotypes around popular role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) and inform people about the potential of the game. “I think it's powerful for women and queer…
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Gender disparities in engineering and computing science at SFU and its effects on female students
March 13, 2017The contrast in male and female representation in some SFU programs is starker than many students might have thought. For Melissa Mah, a fifth-year student in electronics engineering and co-president of SFU’s Women in Engineering, the disproportionate gender distribution in…
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Inpower: the online forum empowering women across Vancouver
March 10, 2017You haven’t seen what girls can do — and what they’re most passionate about — until you get 30,000 of them together in one online space. Dreaming of a more empowered tomorrow 21-year-old Rozan Talevian started this Vancouver-based online space,…
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