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Violet_Crumble

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Tue Feb 14, 2012, 07:34 AM Feb 2012

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it's hard to find at either site iverglas Feb 2012 #1
Yeah, that's the group of women she discriminates against... Violet_Crumble Feb 2012 #2
 

iverglas

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1. it's hard to find at either site
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 07:57 AM
Feb 2012

the US where it originated

http://emilyslist.org/

or Australia

http://www.emilyslist.org.au/

but EMILY = Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise)

as I recall it.

When I was a candidate in Canada, the party had (still has) a fund for women candidates to cover expenses women often have that men don't, in particular childcare. I got $1000 and bought some decent clothes. Covered a smidgen of lost income as well. The Agnes MacPhail fund, named for Canada's first woman MP, from the Progressive Party at the time, established in 1989.


But you've lost me. A group of women ... ?

(edit - we're talking same-sex marriage? But surely that's equal opportunity discrimination. )


Canada has had one female head of government: Kim Campbell, PM for less than 5 months in 1993.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell

After that, her party (Progressive Conservative) was reduced to 2 seats in the House. The effects of being elected party leader (and automatically becoming PM pending an election) to succeed a hugely unpopular predecessor. She's had a decent post-political career internationally. As PM, she did pretty much nothing much.

Violet_Crumble

(35,954 posts)
2. Yeah, that's the group of women she discriminates against...
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 08:20 AM
Feb 2012

Really disappointing considering the great credentials she came into the job with...

I didn't realise Canada had had a female leader already. I wonder how many decades it'll be before there's a female President in the US...

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