“What Gender is your City” ?
| October 9, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
PUBLIC FORUM (please circulate)
"What Gender is your City?" Women, Gender and Local Government.
Thursday, Oct. 9, 7 pm, Rhizome Café 317 E. Broadway
Panel Discussion with:
Prabha Khosla* will speak about her new book “Gender in Local
Government: A Sourcebook for Trainers”.
Erica de Castro** Planning Department UBC will talk about changing ways
municipalities deal with violence against women with specific examples
from Brazil and Canada.
Ellen Woodsworth*** will talk about a Gender Equality Strategy for the
City of Vancouver.
Someone**** from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will speak
about their new publication. See below
Join us to ensure gender issues are on the agenda for the Nov.15
municipal election.
* Prabha Khosla is an urban planner, researcher, trainer and activist
who has worked on issues of urban sustainability, planning,
democratizing local governance, women’s rights and gender equality. She
is a founding member of Toronto Women’s City Alliance (TWCA) and the
author of a recent UN-HABITAT publication - “Gender in Local
Government: A Sourcebook for Trainers”.
** Erica De Castro is a planner who has done a lot of community
development work in Brazil around gender issues
*** Ellen Woodsworth as a Vancouver city councillor from 2202-2005 was
Cochair of the Women's Task Force which developed the document "Gender
Equality Strategy for the City of Vancouver. Ellen is running for City
Council on Nov.15
**** The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just
published "Where Are the Women ? Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian
Public Polity". See below.
Where Are the Women?
Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Public Policy
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/Reports/2008/09/ReportsStudies1962/index.cfm?pa=BB736455
Contemporary Canadian fiscal and social policy reforms have been
accompanied by the progressive disappearance of the gendered subject,
both in discourse and practice. Indeed, the minority Conservative
government of Stephen Harper has gone so far as to declare that the
goal of gender equity has been achieved in Canada. However, as Brodie
and Bakker argue in Where Are the Women? Gender Equity, Budgets and
Canadian Public Policy, not only has the goal of gender equality not
been met but the relentless attack on federal social programs over the
past decade has actually undermined gender equity, as well as the well-
being of Canadian women, especially the most vulnerable.........
Tags: Women
