I was recently interviewed by a reporter for the Durham College newspaper. One of the questions she asked me was, “Why is BPW still relevant today?” Good question. After all, equality for women is old news. All the battles have been won. Women are everywhere in the workplace, at least here in Canada. So...
It’s International Women’s Day. A time to reflect on how far we have come and to look at where we still need to go. There will be many articles and tributes to significant women in the news today. But there are many more women who will not make the news because their contribution is...
“The fundamental question is whether women are entitled to those innate human rights for which men have fought and died or whether they, unworthy of freedom, belong in a slave class.” so said Lena Madesin Phillips, President and founder of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women in 1935 as she addressed the...
