International Women's Day
As you may know tomorrow (March 8) is the International Women's Day, a day to recognize women's achievements and acknowledge the challenges they continue to face in the quest for gender equality.
Even in Canada gender equality is still not reached yet, and there are several ways you can support gender equality and press for progress.
- Inform yourself about gender inequalities, their causes and the way to change it
Women's situation in Canada: http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/iwd-jif/equality-egalite-en.html
Statistics in physics from APS (if you missed our colloquium!): https://www.aip.org/statistics
Learn more about unconscious bias https://diversity.ucsf.edu/resources/unconscious-bias
Implicit association test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/canada/takeatest.html
On bystander intervention to stop violence and harassment: https://nomore.org/learn/bystander-scenarios/
Inspiring talks: We should all be feminists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc
Violence against women—it's a men's issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvSfeCRxe8
These are just a few starting points, feel free to share all other relevant material
- Join the WiP mailing list to stay informed about our events
Send an email to women-request@physics.mcgill.ca to be added to our mailing list
or/and follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wipmcgill
- Join the Women's March
There is a march that will start at 17:30 from Place Du 6-Décembre-1989 (metro cote des neiges)
If you would like to take part and will be leaving from McGill you can join us at 16:30 in the Rutherford lobby to go there.
- Go on strike
In short, the strike calls for all women (labour unions extend the call to men as well) to not attend work, not attend school/university, not buy and not do home-caring chores on that day. The goal is to show that if women stop, the world stops. The principal reason amounts to a demand for equality, with special focus on the end of gender violence, feminicides and gender pay gap. https://www.womenstrikeus.org/ https://womenstrike.org.uk/
