Is 30 per cent representation the new gender-equality dream?
Campaigns to raise women’s representation on boards and in politics to 30 per cent are picking up steam globally
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
Emily, Alone
Book by Stewart O’Nan
Western adoptions, Chinese mothers’ pain
A stunningly candid new book gives voice to the women whose daughters were taken from them
Life, On The Line: A Chef’s Story Of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death And Redefining The Way We Eat
By Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas
I Think I Love You
By Allison Pearson
Retirement 6/49
More and more Canadians are counting on lotteries as a source of savings for life after work
Oprah’s so-called experts
A spate of new books reveals many of the talk-show queen’s ’authorities’ are pretty screwed up
A Box Of Darkness: The Story Of A Marriage
By Sally Ryder Brady
The new widow’s handbook
Joyce Carol Oates’s new memoir is raw, blackly funny—and surprisingly practical
Where they take the cake
Nicole Richie could have hired anyone to make her wedding cake. She chose Toronto’s Cake Opera Co.