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SheAO Symposium spotlights women’s municipal sector challenges

by MEYER S
SheAO Symposium spotlights women’s municipal sector challenges Erin O’Hoski, principal strategy consultant at Boulevard Strategy, presented a summary of the SheAO Symposium event on supporting women in local government during the 2019 Ontario Municipal Administrators’ Association Fall Workshop.
Published in October 2019

Women face unique challenges in the municipal workplace, including harassment and gender bias. This is why organizers of the first SheAO Symposium believed it was critical to foster a conversation with women in local government leadership roles from across Ontario.

Prior to the 2019 Ontario Municipal Administrators’ Association (OMAA) Fall Workshop, some two-dozen women gathered with a panel of professionals, including political scientist Kate Graham, Lauren Bernardi from Bernardi Law, Karen Gordon

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