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Yesterday I had the privilege and the honour to represent Canada and speak at the UN. I spoke on the work of Next Gen Men & Equity Leaders in engaging men and boys as part of Canada’s “Resilient women, resilient societies” side event at the UN High Level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Read MoreIt wasn’t until dropping off the final students from our last field trip of the year that it hit me, my time developing and delivering programs at NGM was over.
Read MoreWe are extremely concerned by Ontario’s decision to revert back to the Health and Physical Education curriculum, last updated in 1998. Ontario’s sex ed curriculum was updated in 2015 in consultation with roughly 4,000 parents, and was designed and written by experts in child development, internet safety, police, and social workers.
Read MoreThe Male Operating System (mOS) is what our hardware (brain and body) is programmed with over the course of our lives. Version 3.0 can include ‘boys don’t cry,’ at about 16.0 we might be told that relentless persistence is key in securing our romantic interests, and by version 22.0 we’d better be ready to crunch some Excel and make some bank.
Read MoreI don’t think we’ll ever be in a post-gender world, nor do I necessarily think that we would be best served by one. Kind of like when someone says ‘I don’t see race’—this could lead to denying someone’s lived experience of their identity.
Read More…cuts both ways! As much as we need more women in leadership roles and STEM education/fields, we need more men in caregiving roles such as early childhood education and nursing.
Read MoreWhy is it that fathers polish their shotguns when their daughters invite a new boyfriend over? Why do we not want our girlfriends to work in the service industry? Why do we all nod our heads when we hear about ‘locker room talk?’ Why is it that we feel #MeToo allegations are a threat to men at large rather than predators that abuse their power?
Read MoreI had a conversation the other day with a journalist about some of the other men’s groups and thinkers on men and masculinity out there. It has me thinking about the commonalities and the differences between ‘us and them.’
Read MoreI learnt a new word this weekend: Sinecure – a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit. From Latin sine cura, ‘without care’.
Read MoreIn a recent Equity Leaders session on Inclusive Leadership, we talked about different traits that leaders should understand and practice, one of which was fairness. I was challenged by one of our participants to explain more…
Read MoreWhat is something from your childhood that you fundamentally believed was gross and now you quite enjoy? Brussel sprouts? Dark chocolate? Do you remember your first sip of alcohol? Whether beer or wine or spirit—did you spit it out?
Read MoreThe other day it struck me as I was talking to a woman who had recently retired from 29 years in a male-dominated industry—what is the one thing that I would ask men to do to advance gender equity?
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