The struggle against sexual harassment and sexual assault at Ontario universities goes back to the 1970s.
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In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
Four years after the violent attack on worshippers at Québec City’s central mosque, the federal government has said it will honour the victims with a national day of remembrance.
Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre that killed 14 women, new threats such as the incel movement pose dangers to the feminist movement.
While we remember the women murdered 30 years ago, we shouldn’t ignore those short, terse paragraphs in the news that describe the everyday, routine violence inflicted upon women.
On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.
Engineering is in a better place than in 1989. More women are studying the field, and academic administrators and managers want to hire female engineers. But more work is still needed.
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Chair of the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering, McMaster University
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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
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Research assistant, Department of History, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Sociology, King's University College, Western University
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Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph
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PhD Student, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professeure associée au département des sciences sociales, Université du Québec en Outaouais et à l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes, UQAM, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University