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The Green Party said in a statement that Elizabeth May was being held to a higher standard than other political leaders because she's a woman.

The tokenism that some people suddenly fear when they see a gender-balanced council has historically favoured white men, regardless of domain. Ironically, gender parity and quotas sometimes remove mediocre men as candidates and leaders; that may explain the discomfort of those concerned with propping up the status quo.

Valérie Plante broke the glass ceiling when she was elected the first female mayor of Montreal. Who could have expected the reaction a fellow female mayor in Ontario got when she proposed a letter of congratulations?

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she hadn't planned to confront a reporter from the Rebel during a news conference last week, but when the right-wing website posed the first question at a news conference in Vancouver, her pent-up frustrations at the outlet's "climate Barbie" tag just came out.

"So you're the Rebel Media that happens to call me 'climate Barbie.' I certainly hope that you will no longer use that hashtag," Catherine McKenna said.

A new report says just five per cent of Canadian technology companies have a female founder and a similar fraction have a woman as CEO, figures which suggest the industry's gender diversity is lagging other sectors.

It’s been almost three years since Sheila Copps came forward with her story of men who sexually assaulted and raped her. She said Wednesday that society still has a long way to go.

Trump is a flawed president, but has been helping decent people clarify what they believe in.

Canada's minister of Indigenous Affairs says she understands some families of missing and murdered aboriginal women are still frustrated about the pace of a national inquiry.

A move by the British Columbia government to ban mandatory high heels in the workplace is being lauded as a step towards ending discriminatory dress codes.