Upcoming Events

Tasha Giroux, our keynote speaker on Equal Pay Day, from the Royal Bank of Canada will inspire our mentorship graduates on June 11.  This will also be our year-end celebration with Melanie Leonard, orchestra conductor, as we come together with our family, friends, and colleagues.

We invite you to participate in the silent auction by donating as well as bidding and purchasing items of all budgets.  All proceeds from the silent auction will go towards BPW Calgary’s Scholarship program.  Local scholarships are awarded to Bow Valley College Students who demonstrate high academic standing and single-handedly lead their own households and families.

To donate an item (or professional service), please email Suzan Davies at [email_info]. Kirsten Glowa, Silent Auction Coordinator, will be in touch with donors to manage the collection and storage of their products or services.

REGISTER ONLINE by Wednesday, June 4, 2014 using the form to the right. Also note our dinner location and cancellation policy in the sidebar. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email them to [email_info] after completing your online registration.

The evening will commence with inspiration focused on ethical performance and peer mentoring by Anna Murray, one of Canada’s most Powerful Women: 2010, Top 100 Winner, and Founder of Young Women in Energy.

It will be followed by election and installing of new executive officers of BPW Calgary. On May 14, play your part as a woman in business or in the professions to contribute your ideas on how we can improve conditions of women locally, nationally and internationally.  We will review our core programs including Scholarships, Mentorship and Equal Pay to define a way forward as we enter the next term, 2014-2016.

The theme we started with in 2012 was Transforming Vision into Reality, and, as a committed group, we recognized the ripple effect especially when we marked Equal Pay Day in Calgary in 2013 and 2014.  This motivated us to submit a renowned Resolution to BPW Canada on “Declaring Equal Pay Day Nationally”.  With a strong and spirited capacity at the executive and committee levels, we certainly transformed vision into reality.  Along the way, we sparked the next generation of female leaders through education and awareness.

We will also begin to renew memberships in May!

REGISTER ONLINE by Wednesday, May 7, 2014 using the form to the right. Also note our dinner location and cancellation policy in the sidebar. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email them to [email_info] after completing your online registration.

Janice Ashcroft, Senior Legal Counsel at the Alberta Human Rights Commission, will share the current legislation on Equal Pay specific to gender and highlight cases where the courts have found that women in the workforce have been paid less than their male counterparts performing the same or “substantially similar” work.

As BPW Calgary prepares to mark Equal Pay Day again this year on March 18, President Jenny Gulamani-Abdulla will summarize our 16-month journey to date to have Equal Pay Day declared nationally in Canada.

To view the club’s first formal educational and awareness campaign last year, click here https://bpwcalgary.com/news/equal-pay-day-highlight-video-march-18-2013/

REGISTER ONLINE by Wednesday, March 5, 2014 using the form to the right. Also note our dinner location and cancellation policy in the sidebar. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email them to [email_info] after completing your online registration.

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Dr. Adrienne Kertzer, Advisor to the President on Women’s Issues, from the University of Calgary will present highlights of her report on Mentorship, Service and Culture of Leadership.

Her focus will be on gender representation and training around equity issues as BPW Calgary members come together to participate in a special tribute to the International Federation of Business and Professional Women uniting women around the world.

In addition, as part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) speaker series Executive Director of Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society, Brigitte Baradoy, will discuss the impact of social policy on domestic violence.

The annual candle lighting ceremony conducted at BPW clubs globally is a symbolic event to recall the past accomplishments of women and honour today’s achievements.  Join us as we celebrate the outstanding women in our community.

REGISTER ONLINE by Wednesday, February 5, 2014 using the form to the right. Also note our dinner location and cancellation policy in the sidebar. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email them to [email_info] after completing your online registration.