Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day! Each of us has a mother, and in some cases many other "mothers" who have stepped in over the years to share the duties of caring for us and teaching us valuable lessons.

Mothers are special people who laugh and cry with us, and give us the courage to get up and try again.

Thank you to all the wonderful mothers in the world!!

Welcome BPW Ottawa!!

On Thursday, May 10, 2012 BPW Ottawa received its charter! Welcome to the new executive, and members! We are so excited to have you join us!!

Thank you to our Teleconference Presenters!

BPW Canada's Virtual Club has concluded its third successful teleconference season! We would like to thank all our speakers who gave so generously of their time and shared their knowledge and experience with us and our guests! Thank you once again to: -Kathy Wong, CARE Canada -Tara Dawood, LadiesFund/BPW Canada Virtual Club -Kathy Telban, EPW USA -Ann Denis, Canadian Research Institute on the Advancement of Women -Nancy Peckford, Equal Voice -Jeanne Martinson, Martrain Corporate and Professional Development Thank you very much!!

Teleconference # 6 - Jeanne Martinson - Women and Leadership

More about this exciting subject:

What are the core leadership abilities essential for successful leaders? How do gender brain differences impact women’s leadership styles?  Join this webinar to learn the keys to authentic leadership.

More about our dynamic speaker:

 

Jeanne Martinson is Managing Partner of Martrain Corporate and Personal Development. For the past 20 years, she has assisted leaders in understanding diversity issues so they may attract and retain an ideal workforce. Jeanne is the author of four books. Her fifth book, due out this fall, discusses the findings from her graduate research where she compared the behaviours of corporate and criminal leaders.
Jeanne is the recipient of the Canada 125 Medal, the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, the Centennial Leadership Award for outstanding contribution to the Province of Saskatchewan, the Athena Award, and the national Diversity award – the EMCY.
Jeanne Martinson has been a BPW member for over 20 years, holding the posts of President of BPW Regina, President of BPW Saskatchewan, and Vice President BPW Canada. More information on Jeanne is available at www.martrain.org.

Teleconference #5: Equal Voice

Presenting Equal Voice!

Equal Voice is a national, multi-partisan organization dedicated to the election of more women. Over the past year: 

·         four women attained or retained the position the position of premier of their respective provinces – in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Alberta and British Columbia

·         a record 25 percent women were elected to the House of Commons in this past federal election

·         one province and one territory increased the percentages of women elected to their legislatures (37 percent for the Yukon and 28 percent for Ontario!)

·         more young women than ever engaged with electoral politics through EV’s Experiences’ campaign schools or election related initiatives

·         Equal Voice hosted a national tenth anniversary leadership summit in March and high level strategy session in June  where we brought together proven politicians to discuss how we can elect more women, what it takes to succeed in politics, and how one can make a difference!

Our speaker will be Executive Director Nancy Peckford:

Nancy Peckford is currently the Executive Director of Equal Voice.  She resides in Ottawa with her partner and two daughters, ages 2 and 4.  Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nancy lived in a variety of rural, urban and northern communities throughout her childhood.  She earned an undergraduate degree in 1994 from Smith College, a liberal arts women’s college in Northampton, Mass in 1994 and completed a Masters of Women’s Studies in 2004.  In addition to her work at Equal Voice, Nancy has served as Program and Executive Director of FAFIA- a pan-Canadian alliance of women’s and human rights groups.  She has also worked as National Lobby Coordinator for the Canadian Women’s March Committee to End Poverty and Violence against Women (2000), researcher with the National Association of Women and the Law, and Program officer with the Canadian Labour Congress Women’s and Human Rights Department.

Learn more about how Equal Voice sees the future for women in politics.  Hear about how EV advocates for change within with political parties, and supports elected women and prospective candidates. 

Teleconference #4 - Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) - January 11th, 2012

BPW Canada's Virtual Club is excited to announce that its first teleconference of 2012 will feature exciting groundbreaking reserach about Canadian women!  Our presenters Ann Denis and Jane Stintson have provided the following abstract:

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW-ICREF) began 35 years ago, linking community and university feminist researchers whose common goal was gender equity, expressed in the organization’s title as ‘the advancement of women’. CRIAW has been a leader – in the topics it has studied and in the ways it has worked, doing research with not just on women, and bringing together research to help women in the community (including students, local women’s groups, and union members) develop the skills they need in order to make their own (often critical) analyses of women’s situations and develop strategies to promote change. CRIAW continues to be challenged to be a national, bilingual and inclusive organization, which recognizes the complexity and diversity of women’s experiences and tries to integrate this diversity into its work. Although changed over the years, its work remains very relevant.

We will talk about some of the highlights of CRIAW’s work, and its challenges. As a recent example of CRIAW’s work we will conclude by talking about FemNorthNet, a 5 year Community-University Research Alliance (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) which is working with women in selected Northern communities to examine the impacts on them of current economic restructuring – and how they respond to it. 

Speaker's Biographies:

Ann Denis, a retired professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, has a longstanding interest in feminist research. Her teaching, research and publications have focused on women’s paid and unpaid work (and the impact of globalization on it), ethnic and race relations, women in engineering, the use of the Internet by young people. She is president of CRIAW, in which she is helping to revise Fact Sheets on women’s experiences of racism and on immigrant and refugee women. 

Jane Stinson is a past president of CRIAW and is currently Director of CRIAW’s FemNorthNet project. A long time officer and director of research in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), her research and publications have concentrated on the impact of globalization, casualization and privatization on women’s work. Through her work with FemNorthNet she is experiencing first hand the challenges of implementing CRIAW’s participatory and inclusive methodology and the rewards of doing so.    

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If you have any questions contact please email csissons1@yahoo.ca 

How to Register:

Cost:

BPW Canada members pay $10 per conference
Non-BPW members pay $15 per conference

To ensure that you register for the talks you are interested in please send a cheque to BPW Canada's Virtual Club (indicate the talks you are interested in) c/o Kathy Laing, 302-38 Metropole Private, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 1E9