Muslim countries must tackle gender gap head-on

2013/12/02 Leave a comment

Usual good commentary by Sheema Khan on gender equality issues in Muslim countries. Arab Development Report has similar findings (not all Arabs are Muslim and vice versa of course).

Reflects, in part, the weakness of the madrassas, mosques and Imams in not addressing and advocating these issues head-on. As she notes, the efforts to educate women will likely change things in the long-term, but as we have seen, some of the most fundamentalist and radicalized have benefited from good education.

Muslim countries must tackle gender gap head-on – The Globe and Mail.

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Point chaud – Charte de la laïcité – Duceppe rejoint Parizeau et Bouchard

2013/12/02 Leave a comment

Gilles Duceppe, former leader of the Bloc québécois, opposed to the excessive reach of the proposed Charter, and favouring the Bouchard-Taylor approach of limiting strict application of secularism to officials  in position of authority.

Line of former sovereignists leaders Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry, but not the current position of the Bloc which supports the PQ government’s proposal:

Point chaud – Charte de la laïcité – Duceppe rejoint Parizeau et Bouchard | Le Devoir.

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The curse of a foreign-sounding name in today’s job market

2013/12/02 Leave a comment

Complementing some of the research we did at Citizenship and Immigration, and the citing of the blind cv test of Professor Oreopoulos (Right résumé, wrong name, The Globe and Mail, 20 May 2009), a personal anecdote of similar experience in the workplace by Priya Ramsingh):

The curse of a foreign-sounding name in today’s job market | Toronto Star.

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