The
lesser 50%
A couple of articles on gender equality
and the status of women to provide some food for thought…
Article
1
Hayes, M. (2018, January 26,). Probing domestic violence, with an eye on
prevention. The Globe and Mail, p A8. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-alberta-edition/20180126/281625305731859
“[intimate
relationship] which we now recognize is the most dangerous environment for a
woman” …. what a sad, sad comment to be made.
In Canada a woman is killed at the
hands of her partner or ex-partner once every five days. In Hamilton, Ontario, population approximately
500,000, officers respond to approximately 18 domestic violence calls per day.
This means a person, typically a woman, within a household, which should
be the safest environment for her, is attacked viciously enough to actually
report the incident 18 times per day in this small city of approximately
500,000 people.
We aren’t even touching on the issue of
violence against Aboriginal women.
The killings and attacks aren’t
typically “crimes of passion”, they are simply everyday life for women in our
country.
And people try to say there’s no need
for explicit action on gender equality, and equal regard for all?
And there is no public outcry. Why not?
Are women so invaluable it doesn’t matter if we’re being killed and
attacked as part of our daily lives?
Your mother, your sisters, your daughters, do you not care that the most
dangerous place for them to be is within an intimate relationship, and that
being there means that their or their friend’s repeated abuse and possibly
eventual death as a result will become an accepted part of their lives?
Article
2
Fife, R. (2018, January 26). Canada to double money for girls’ education
fund. The Globe and Mail, p
A5. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-bc-edition/20180126/281573766124502
Yes, please, let’s keep trying to do something to demonstrate that women are
of value….
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