Women speak first | Solidarity Kjipuktuk / Halifax

Judy Haiven, management professor at Saint Mary’s University and member of Solidarity Halifax, announced during a recent panel on campus misogyny that women’s voices should be prioritized in the classroom. She explained her experiment in her own classrooms where she always gives first voice to women during discussions and group projects in order to avoid having men monopolize discussions and debates.

Judy explains her classroom practice in the following two interviews from UNews:

SMU prof’s ‘women speak first’ classroom rule an experiment

Ladies first? SMU prof wants classroom rule

Dr. Judy Haiven, a management professor at Saint Mary's University, has started an experiment where women speak first in the classroom. Photo: Keili Bartlett — Judy Haiven, a management professor at Saint Mary’s University, has started an experiment where women speak first in the classroom. Photo: Keili Bartlett / UNews

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