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The numbers on GETTING OUT OF TOWN and ADVENTURES IN POLITICS.
GETTING OUT OF TOWN

82: The percentage of women who never check in with the office while they're out of town with a group of girlfriends, according to an American Express Travel poll.

39: The percentage of women who are planning to travel with a group of female friends and relatives during the next three years.

24: The percentage of women who enjoyed a girlfriends' getaway in the past three years.

25: The number of items on Journeywoman.com editor Evelyn Hannon's list of solo travel essentials for women. Included in her picks are a one-size-fits-all sink stop, dried fruit, handkerchiefs, clothespins, and electrical tape. Get the lowdown on how to use all 25 items at http://journeywoman.com/travel101/i_packed_my_backpack.html.


ADVENTURES IN POLITICS

That was then...

1921: Canadian women win the right to vote in a federal election.

1921: Agnes Campbell Macphail becomes the first woman elected to Parliament. She is a United Farmers of Ontario candidate running in the rural Ontario riding of Grey South East.

1951: Charlotte Whitton becomes Canada's first full-time female mayor: mayor of Ottawa.

1958: Margaret Meagher becomes Canada's first female ambassador.

1982: Bertha Wilson becomes the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

1989: Audrey McLaughlin becomes the first woman to lead a national political party-the New Democratic Party of Canada.

1993: Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister. "Women of all ages were jubilant, many of them crying at this historic moment, Campbell later recalled in her memoir Time and Chance. "A woman was going to be prime minister of Canada, and I was that woman. I put aside all my fears about what was to come, and just savoured it."


This is now...

10: Percentage of female candidates fielded by the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election.

20.8: Percentage of seats in the House of Commons held by women from all parties.

30: Canada's rank in the world, when it comes to the political participation of women. Canada falls behind Sweden, Norway, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous other countries.


Sources:

American Express Travel Poll, June 2007

AAA Travel Poll, July 2007

CBC.ca, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women: www.criaw-icref.ca
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Ann Douglas is the author of 27 books, including the internationally bestselling The Mother of All Pregnancy Books and Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas: Women of the Great White North. She is currently working on books 28 and 29: Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler and Food Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (to be published in 2006). Ann regularly speaks to parenting and women's groups across the country and is frequently featured in both the print and broadcast media. She writes columns for Conceive Magazine and CanadianLiving.com and teaches writing courses through Trent University. Ann lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband and their four children, ages 8 through 17.

Visit her blog at anndouglas.blogspot.com.
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    As the old wisdom states: in order to understand the future, you need to understand the past. How true is that? The past entices learning, reminds us of what to do and what not to do, teaches us valuable lessons, and shows us from where we have come and how far. Women suffragists have blazed trails for our future, herbal women have taught us how to heal and nurture ourselves, our travels have taught us to value what we have or to reach for a better future, and our innermost desires poke to the surface reminding us to act, that there is more we want to do. Of course, we need to look toward the future, but the wisdom of the past must always be our companion.

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