| NB Women's News – March 8, 2010 |
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NB Women's News – March 8, 2010 - A service of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women To unsubscribe, reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in text. (Défilez vers le bas pour la version française) MINIMUM WAGE & LOW-WAGE WORKERSOne quarter of all female employees in N.-B. earn less than $10/ hour. 6% earn minimum wage. - Statistics Canada, Labour Force Historical Review 2008; NB Advisory Council, Status Report 2010, www.acswcccf.nb.ca *******NB Women’s News ******* NOTICE, RESOURCES, EVENTS "Women in Art" exhibit – Hartland’s W.W. Craig Gallery (below Dr. Walter Chestnut Public Library) 2-27 March 2010. Jody Coughlin, Judy Daye, Jean Haywood & Ann Kittredge.
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; 375-4876 Int’l Women’s Day Luncheon - CFUW Moncton, Sat. 13, March 2010, 12pm, Beausejour Curling Club, Speaker: Sue Calhoun, Canadian Pres. of Business & Professional Women, $22. RSVP by 8 March. 386-5471;
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Noon session with Monica Townson on Women, Poverty & the Recession – Mon 8 March 2010, 12:30 to 2 pm, Wilmot United Ch., Fredericton. Light lunch. FREE but you must pre-register:
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. Evening session with Monica Townson speaking on Women & the Recession - 8 March, 7pm, Edmund Casey Hall, Ted Daigle Auditorium, St. Thomas Univ. Free. Listen to the recent presentation on Women In Politics – Media, Parties And Voters (72 min.) by Dr. Joanna Everitt, professor of politics specializing in voting behaviour, gender differences in public opinion, media coverage of male & female party leaders. See accompanying powerpoint. www.acswcccf.nb.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=891&Itemid=62&lang=en Are We There Yet? - Lunch & Learn presentation of the 2010 Status Report – Women in N.B., a statistical profile published every 2 years by the Advisory Council. Noon to 1:30 pm. Campbellton , 9 March, Howard Johnson, bilingual. Moncton, 15 March, Delta Beauséjour, bilingual. Saint John, Market Square Public Library, 22 March. Sackville, 23 March, Civic Centre. Fredericton, Wilmot United Church. FREE but you must pre-register:
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Women 55-70: Physical Activity & Sport. Cdn Assoc. for Advancement of Women in Sport & Physical Activity. Workshops to discuss research findings & tools produced for a 5-yr national project: 26 March 2010 in Dieppe NB (French). 31 March in Fredericton (English).
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Reality Check: Women in Canada & Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action 15 Years On - Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) & Canadian Labour Congress, www.fafia-afai.org/en/frontpage Submit names of individuals or organizations who have advanced the prevention & elimination of family violence for the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation Award. By March 19, 2010 www.mmff.ca/en/award.php. Have Used Books?? - Canadian Federation of University Women (Moncton) & Business & Professional Women of Greater Moncton are looking for used books (in good shape), DVD’s, CD’s, puzzles, for annual Book Fair, 6- 7-8 May 2010. Drop off at any Fire Station in Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe. 388-5983 ; 875-3262. Canadian Federation of University Women Fredericton requests donations of gently used books for 45th annual book fair in May. Drop off until 21 May 2010 at Brookside Mall Office; Betty Lee's Food, York St; or Fire Stations at Two Nations Crossing & Oromocto. Info or pick-up: Nora 459-3071; Janet 455-1036; Edye 454-3811. Funds go to scholarships for women, library & music festival awards. 3rd World March of Women 2010 “Women on the March Until We are all Free” Activities from 8 March to 17 Oct. 4 fields of action: Women’s Economic Autonomy, Common good and public services, Peace and Demilitarisation; Violence against women. www.mmf2010.info/ *******NB Women’s News ******* WE ASKED OURSELVES WHAT WE WANTED FOR INT’L WOMEN’S DAY…… we decided we wanted to hear political parties speak on the issues surrounding equality. Those issues are not discussed often enough in the Legislature, so we created a forum for those questions to be raised,” said Sister Auréa Cormier of the Common Front for Social Justice. David Alward, PC Leader, Minister Kelly Lamrock, NDP Leader Roger Duguay, & Green Party’s Jack MacDougall will participate in a free noon panel at Moncton’s Lions Community Ctre, Mon. March 8. Pre-registration required:
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. - Media release, 3 March 2010. *******NB Women’s News ******* A ROYAL INVESTIGATION INTO CHANGING TIMES(Last month) in 1967, Prime Minister Lester Pearson created the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, having been pressured to do so by a coalition of women’s groups across Canada and having resisted doing it partly because the press was “very negative to the idea”. Among the seven commissioners were Chairman “Mrs. John Bird” of Ottawa and St. Andrews, N.B. and “Mrs. Robert Ogilvie” of Fredericton. They would later sign the final report as “Florence Bird” and “Doris Ogilvie”. John Humphrey of Hampton, who had famously contributed to the writing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was also appointed… The final report - published 40 yrs ago this year - sold out in 3 days. It seemed that every woman had her copy. The report, and the 3-year process, “woke up Canadian women to the inequities in the system”. Actually, it woke up the country. There was no going back… - From a column by Chairperson Elsie Hambrook. Feb 2010. *******NB Women’s News ******* WE NEED MORE SILOS!It was interesting to read Sue Rickards' commentary on the Act to create a Crown corporation to administer the provincial poverty reduction plan… (She) suggests the way to deal with poverty is to put it in the hands of the communities... I would point out that before Louis J. Robichaud's Equal Opportunity Program, poverty was in the hands of communities; this was not working. As a society, we made the decision to put some public programs in place to deal with broad issues (health, education, poverty, unemployment, etc.)… The delivery of the Poverty Reduction Plan will be done by Community Inclusion Networks (as many as 15)… It will be up to each network to determine local priorities. So, instead of having a program that is available, as well as similar, for everyone, we could now have 15 programs. Is that not returning to the pre-Robichaud era, where 15 counties were administering social assistance with the consequences we all know, one of which was the difference in the help offered, depending if you were living in a rich or poor county? Remember, at the beginning of this process, one of the arguments was that poverty reduction had not been achieved because gov’t departments were working in silos. Our social thinkers have found the solution. We need more silos! … We are creating an administrative monster that will devour funds but will not help reduce poverty significantly... - Excerpts, Commentary, Jean-Claude Basque, Telegraph Journal, 4 March 2010. *******NB Women’s News ******* ADRIENNE CLARKSON WRITES TO OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - HOCKEYAs a Canadian women's hockey fan and founder of the Clarkson Cup for women's hockey, I read with … disbelief the report of your remarks after Canada won its 3rd Olympic championship in women's hockey. “We cannot continue without improvement,” you said. Your musings made us think that women's hockey might no longer be part of the Winter Olympics… Would this mean that women in all the countries that now play our distinctive game will no longer be able to train from childhood with the Olympic dream as their goal? Why is it that women must be excluded until they're not only as good but better than anyone else, especially in the eyes of men? … Was there not an “imbalance” when men's hockey began its international ascent? …Rather than think there aren't enough good players in the world to warrant a place in the Olympics, should we not be thinking about encouraging & sustaining players in countries that want to participate? …Having other countries' teams come to Canada to train means they would be able to play more games and train in a different way… We invented hockey; we can share the dream. And we're not worried about continuing to win. - Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor-general, Globe & Mail, 1 Mar. 2010. *******NB Women’s News ******* AS THEY SAY Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. Subscribe to this weekly e-newsletter by emailing
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with "SUBSCRIBE NB Women's News"; or visit our site www.acswcccf.nb.ca, click on Sign up for email news. BILINGUAL? Read on! Not all of NB Women's News is translated. Unilingual events or resources are described in that language only. Nota: The distribution list for this email is under "bcc" in order to avoid displaying a long list of recipients. Visit our internet site for news, events and documents on New Brunswick women: www.acswcccf.nb.ca. ___________________________________________________________ SALAIRE MINIMUM ET FAIBLE SALAIRE
Le quart des femmes ayant un emploi au N.-B. gagnent moins de 10$ l’heure. 6% des femmes ayant un emploi au N.-B. gagnent le salaire minimum. Salaire minimum (temps plein et temps partiel), N.-B. Salaire minimum, travaillent à temps plein, N.-B. Moins de 10$ l’heure (temps plein et temps partiel), N.-B. Moins de 10$ l’heure, travaillent à temps plein, N.-B. - Statistique Canada, Revue chronologique de la population active 2008; Conseil consultatif NB., Rapport d’étape 2010, www.acswcccf.nb.ca ******* NouvELLES ******* AVIS, RESSOURCES, ÉVÉNEMENTS
Mise à jour sur la condition féminine au N.-B. - Présentation sommaire du Rapport d’étape 2010 sur la situation des femmes du N.-B., document statistique publié à tous les 2 ans par le Conseil consultatif. Dîner causerie de 12h à 13h30. Campbellton, 9 mars, Howard Johnson. Caraquet, 10 mars, Hôtel Super 8, Rosella Melanson. Edmundston, 15 mars, Pav. Simon-Larouche, Univ. de Moncton, campus d’Edmundston. Moncton – 15 mars, Delta Beauséjour. Gratuit mais il faut se pré inscrire :
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À la recherche de livres usagés - La Fédération canadienne des femmes diplômées des universités Moncton et le Club des Femmes d’affaires et de carrières professionnelles du Grand Moncton sont à la recherche de livres usagés (en bon état), de disques compacts, DVD, jeux ou casse-têtes pour la Foire annuelle du livre (6-7 -8 mai). Apportez à n’importe quelle caserne de pompiers de Moncton, Riverview ou Dieppe. 383-1467. Confrontation avec la réalité: Les femmes au Canada et la Déclaration et Programme d'action de Beijing après 15 années – nouveau document de l’Alliance canadienne féministe pour l’action internationale et Congrès du travail du Canada, www.fafia-afai.org/fr/frontpage Écoutez l’enregistrement de la session (en anglais) qui a eu lieu récemment sur le thème “Women In Politics – Media, Parties And Voters” (72 min.) avec la professeure Joanna Everitt. Consultez (en français) sa présentation Powerpoint : www.acswcccf.nb.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=891&Itemid=62&lang=en L’activité physique chez les femmes de 55 à 70 ans - Atelier en français à Dieppe le 26 mars 2010. Présentation des résultats et des ressources découlant d’un projet national sur 5 ans. Assoc. canadienne pour l'avancement des femmes, du sport et de l'activité physique.
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******* NouvELLES ******* CERTAINS SEMBLENT PENSER QU’IL EST IRONIQUE OU INAPPROPRIÉ …
…que des hommes représentent les partis politiques à cette table ronde. Si ce sont tous des hommes, cela reflète la triste réalité de la sous-représentation extrême des femmes en politique au N.-B. Mais nous voulions voir les chefs de partis, ou une personne qui les représente. Ce sont eux les décideurs et les femmes et les priorités des femmes méritent leur attention. – commentaire de Jody Dallaire de la Coalition pour des services de garde à l’enfance du N.-B. au sujet de la table ronde sur les questions de femmes à laquelle participent les 4 partis politiques le 8 mars (midi) au Centre communautaire Lions à Moncton. ******* NouvELLES ******* GUIDE-RESSOURCE POUR FILLES ET JEUNES FEMMES DU N.-B.
Femmes Équité Atlantique et ses groupes membres du N.-B. ont lancé un nouveau Guide-ressource pour filles et jeunes femmes, édition Nouveau-Brunswick - 188 pages portant sur des enjeux qui touchent la vie des filles et des jeunes femmes (préparation à la carrière, les relations, la gestion de l’argent, le féminisme, la fierté de son patrimoine). Développé à partir des besoins exprimés par les filles et les jeunes femmes francophones des provinces atlantiques. En annexe: « Des ressources au bout des doigts » sur les services offerts dans la province, et à l’échelle atlantique, nationale ou internationale. Gratuit : commandez une ou plusieurs copies du Guide :
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******* NouvELLES ******* ENQUÊTE ROYALE SUR UNE ÉPOQUE EN CHANGEMENT
(Le mois dernier) en 1967, le premier ministre Lester Pearson créait la Commission royale d'enquête sur la situation de la femme au Canada, après avoir subi des pressions en ce sens de la part d’une coalition de groupes de défense des droits des femmes de partout au Canada et après avoir résisté en partie parce que la presse réagissait très négativement à cette idée. Au cours des trois années qui ont suivi, le travail de la Commission, tout comme son fameux rapport final en 1970, a contribué à rendre légitimes les questions touchant les femmes, bien que la presse se soit assurée qu’il serait reçu avec dérision en laissant entendre qu’il s’agirait d’un « mur des Lamentations pour tous les papes écervelés, mécontents et frustrés en jupons », et que son travail serait terminé en un après midi puisque les femmes n'avaient aucun sujet de plainte… - Tiré d’une chronique par la présidente Elsie Hambrook, février 2010. ******* NouvELLES ******* MON MARI EST UN ANGE
Extrait de la pièce de théâtre de Gracia Couturier (Michel Henry éditeur, 1988) portant sur un homme « enceint » : « J’en dormais pus. Ça coûte de l’argent, un petit. Plusse que c’est petit, plusse ça coûte cher. C’est même pas encore au monde pis ça commence déjà à nous fére dépenser de l’argent. Pis des sueurs. En tout cas, c’est pas un temps pour pardre sa job. Belle lettre polie ou pas, indéterminé ou à tout jamais, l’essentiel, c’est que c’est sans solde pis que j’ai besoin d’argent. J’en dormais pus, des nuits, des nuits de temps. Pouvez-vous comprendre ça, vous autres? Je peux pas prendre de valiums, chu t’enceinte. Je veux pas addicter c’t enfant-là. Je veux qu’y choisisse lui-même l’addiction qui va le mener par le bout du nez. Qu’y s’addicte à drogue, à religion, à musique, à l’informatique, à psychologie ou à n’importe quoi d’autre, je peux comprendre; l’homme est naturellement addicté à que’que chose. Mais je veux le laisser dans son choix. Me semble qu’un bon pére doit respecter ça. Ça m’aide pas plusse à dormir. ******* NouvELLES ******* TEL QUEL
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