Rosemary Speirs

Lorna Marsden has written an important book, sweeping in its scope, about how women have achieved gender equality in many aspects of life in Canada, but have fallen short on certain of those matters that count most. To make her point that we have come a long way baby over the last 150 years but still have many miles to…

Political scientist Louise Carbert wanted to know why women are largely missing from Canadian politics. While others theorized, she went to talk directly to the kind of women you would expect to run—women in the rural regions of Atlantic Canada where the female politician is a rare species. The dearth of elected women is a conundrum with which the women’s movement…