Women and Corporate Boards; Elizabeth Renzetti; Joy Manson, Essay; Scott Stossel; Margarethe von Trotta; Nadine Gordimer
This week on The Sunday Edition for July 20, 2014....
This week on The Sunday Edition for July 20, 2014.
Women and Boards (00:39): Laura Lynch talks to Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette about the poor representation of women in corporate boardrooms. Even though women have excelled in virtually every walk of life, they hold just 10 per cent of the seats on corporate boards of directors. In fact, 40 per cent of the top 500 Canadian companies have no women at all on their boards. Senator Hervieux-Payette is determined to change things through legislation. She's introduced a bill that would compel corporations to increase the representation of women on their boards. She talks to Laura Lynch.
With guest host Laura Lynch.
Women and Boards (00:39): Laura Lynch talks to Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette about the poor representation of women in corporate boardrooms. Even though women have excelled in virtually every walk of life, they hold just 10 per cent of the seats on corporate boards of directors. In fact, 40 per cent of the top 500 Canadian companies have no women at all on their boards. Senator Hervieux-Payette is determined to change things through legislation. She's introduced a bill that would compel corporations to increase the representation of women on their boards. She talks to Laura Lynch.
Based on a True Story: (26:08) Elizabeth Renzetti in conversation with Laura Lynch. The Globe and Mail columnist is now a first-time novelist. Her new book, Based on a True Story, is a funny, dishy and acerbic look at celebrity and tabloid culture. , centring on a self-obsessed and self-destructive actress and the young newspaper reporter who agrees to ghost-write her memoir.
Essay: (51:31): Joy Manson was no whiz at math until her life took a dramatic turn, and her wheelchair became her math instructor.
Scott Stossel (59:02): Scott Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, is one of more than 44 million people in North America afflicted by anxiety. His many phobias include claustrophobia, acrophobia, aerophobia, emetophobia, aeronausiphobia, bacillophobia, asthenophobia and turophobia. In his new book, My Age of Anxiety, Stossel does for anxiety what Andrew Solomon did for depression in The Noonday Demon. A reprise of his conversation with Michael Enright.
Margarethe von Trotta (1:22:06): From her first film, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, to her most recent film about the philosopher Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta earned a reputation as the world's leading feminist director. She talks to Michael Enright about how her films explore politics, the lives of women and how the personal and political intersect.
Nadine Gordimer (1:48:17): Nadine Gordimer, who died a week ago at the age of 90, is being mourned as a great South African, as a human rights advocate, as a champion for those fighting HIV/AIDS and as a renowned writer. She was a member of the African National Congress and a close friend of Nelson Mandela, in addition to winning both the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. We're going to pay tribute to her with two interviews she gave to Michael Enright.