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Political Mavens, Laurie Blakeman

06 Thursday May 2010

Posted by mryland in pay equity, sexism, Women and politics, women in politics, women leaders, women's issues

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A feminist since the age of fourteen, MLA Laurie Blakeman has 40 years of activism under her belt. She is an unrepentant, some would say “militant” feminist and social advocate who has worked to make changes both inside and outside the political realm. She was first elected as a Liberal to her home riding of Edmonton Centre in 1997 and since that time she has served on House committees, as a Shadow Minister for Environment and Culture & Community Spirit, and as both the Official Opposition Deputy and House Leader. She has also performed the duties of Executive Director for the Alberta Advisory Council on Women’s Issues. It is no wonder that she received the 1999 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, an early distinction for a long career of creating change for women and all citizens. You can learn more about her here. MLA Laurie Blakeman graciously agreed to chat with me. When we managed to connect and here’s what she had to say:
Q: How and why did you get involved in politics?

A: Anyone who’s interested in changing the world they live in will eventually get involved in a number of different things. I got involved in several organizations, walked in a lot of marches, wrote a lot of letters, made a lot of speeches, but at a certain point, I felt that I wasn’t about to move my issues any further without getting involved in organized politics. So, I did the research, found a party, and joined a young campaign team that worked to elect a new female representative. At that point, I was asked to join the constituency board for that party and ran for that riding four years later.  I now know that running and winning that first time is pretty special. A lot of great politicians fail many times before they win and it’s very important that they stuck with it.

Q: Why do you think women should get involved in politics?

A: People are still active in changing public policy, but I see an abandonment or mistrust of organized politics.  This is a mistake. Maybe because they are impatient, wanting a bigger voice sooner, there’s an increase in women participating in special interest groups instead of politics. It also used to be the politics were one of the only places that women could change their world and now women are able to be leaders in other fields and industries. Now politics have to compete to get the bright women into the field and right now they aren’t doing well attracting them. However, while you can affect some changes in legislation outside organized politics, you’re working one ring out. More women need to be involved in politics and if the structures don’t work for you, change it. To me, not having women on committees was not acceptable. No women with economics degrees for committees? No. Go out and find them. I raise the issues, ask the questions and put in the work to make system changes. There’s a lot of people remaining one circle out from actually changing policy. Yes, it’s a male set up, adversarial, and combative. Women can be combative. I’ve been very successful in changing policy, and from the opposition the whole time. There’s less hooplah when it happens, but that doesn’t mean it’s not success.

Q: What issue do you see as particularly important for women?

A: We’re continuing to seek choice, access and opportunity. Ultimately, we’re trying to get women to participate fully in our province, and our country. That happens in a social, legal, and economic way. For example, we’re not going to have full participation if many women are working minimum wage jobs, but the province refuses to increase minimum wage. In fact, too much time is spent on the social issues as opposed to legal or economic. Equal legal and economic access and opportunity are crucial. If women can’t earn the same amount, you have less access to full citizenship.  You have less access to buying power, higher education, positions of power, etc. Pay attention to women’s economic status. That’ sabout choie as well. That’s about being about to stay at home and be respectd ffor that and making that economic choice.

Q: Have you ever experienced any discrimination as a woman in politics? If so, describe your experiences and how you handled them.

A: I never know how to response; it’s kind a “Duh”. Of course I’ve experienced it. You have a public profile so that other people can throw stones at you and I am still a minority in my workplace. Others have the advantage of making more money and having fewer expectations about their time. In reality, every politician could do with a wife, but I don’t get that, so I’m still doing the work at home that my colleagues don’t do.

Specifically, I have had a member attempt to assault me in the House in front of other members, without consequence. There was also no help from the Speaker or Sergeant-at-arms, and that allowed for a long period of targeted verbal harassment that went on over a year. No one did anything to help until I went back into the community and explained what had happened. Women’s organizations rallied around me. Neither the structures that were in place within government nor the officials designated to deal with this helped me, but the women who were running events and organizations worked to create a place where I could work safely and even triumphantly. I would be surprised if something like the assault happened today, but then I was surprised that it happened then.

Q: What is your Dream for Women?

A: The full and equal participation of women in the life of… fill in the blank. The city, the province, the country. Everything aspect.

Women have to come a lot further in their economic and legal status. The Charter [of Rights and Freedoms] allows for that, but if we hadn’t had women working to make those changes in the Charter, we wouldn’t have section 15. That’s about a legal standing and you need that legal standing before you can enforce these equalities. We’re been able to do that, but we’re still behind. Political representation is part of that legal heading and we haven’t reached that critical mass yet. I started in a caucus that was 50% women and have been in one where I’ve been the only one, and I can tell you it’s a lot easier when there’s 50% women.

Q: What advice do you have for young women?

A: Just do it. Politics, it’s a busy life. There are more things to do than you have time for, but in reality there’s only a few people between you and what you want. If you want to do it, you can. If you’re waiting for someone to show you a way or help you out or organize until it’s perfect, you’ll wait a hell of a long time. No one has time to tell you how, and there’s never a perfect time. Just do it. If you’re trying to change the world, go out and start changing it. If you really want to do something, you say I’ll do it, you do the work, and you’ll get it.  Look to yourself. Go back to your roots. You have to change the structures that led to problems. I did that.

Finally, anger is a great energizer, and I recommend it. Anger is a great energizer, and I recommend it. I think women are often too nice and we do get angry, and we some see anger as not a quality that women should have, but that anger can be energizing to action and if we embraced our inner anger more often we’d get more done. We also have to embrace the inner joy, of course. However, how do I keep going? Outrage is a great energizer. We need a lot of energy and we have a lot of things to be done. I thought there’d be a lot more done by now, but we have far to go still.

MLA Blakeman also happens to have a Youtube channel where citizens can watch politics in action. Check it out an example!

Here she’s a talking about gender reassignment surgery issues in Alberta and its funding in the province through healthcare. However, she has a number of videos on a broad spectrum of issues, from censorship to human rights. They’re definitely worth a look.

Antigone Launches Feminist Social Networking Site on International Women’s Day!

08 Monday Mar 2010

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Hi Friends!

Happy International Women’s Day!
My name is Amanda Reaume and I am the Executive Director of The Antigone Foundation. We believe it’s time for Canada’s feminists and women’s organizations to work together to leverage the power of social networking to connect around common causes and concerns across the country, both online and in person.

That is why we are launching Antigone Connect , an online site working to engage women’s organizations and feminists across the country to work collaboratively for women’s rights and equality in Canada and around the world.

Our Goal:

We are hoping to create a powerful online network that will be able to help lead the Canadian women’s movement forward in the coming years. As we approach Canada’s 150th Anniversary, we are all aware that there is a great deal more to be done in Canada to ensure women’s equality. More women in politics and managerial positions, accessible child care, changes to the Indian Act, equal pay, and equal pensions are just a few of the things that the Royal Commission on the Status of Women identified as necessary for equality nearly fifty years ago. They have still not been fully realized and this is going to take cooperation and coordination to accomplish.

Canadian Women’s History

This past fall, Antigone Magazine put together an issue about Canadian Women’s History and we spoke to Marilou McPhedran. She talked about how women organized around constitutional issues in the 1980s to ensure that women were included within the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As McPhedran mentions, they did this without even a fax machine. With phone trees, letters to MPs and a lot of conviction, these women changed our country. We can too. Many of us now have access to e-mail, the internet, social networking, maybe even Blackberries and Smartphones. Some also have well paying jobs and contacts with women and men in power who support work for women’s equality. We owe it to our foremothers to leverage all the technologies and privileges that we have to connect and make sure that their legacies are not forgotten.

Your Help

But this network is not going to happen overnight. We need your help in the days and weeks ahead to expand it and bring to the table the voices of women from all backgrounds, from groups that might not readily identify as feminists, or those who might have difficulties accessing the internet, and the voices of women and men that are allies to the work that we do. We need you to tell people about it. To e-mail your contacts about it. To post it on Facebook or Twitter. To contact your friends who might have worked for feminist causes in the past but who have gone off in other directions. To help the technically unsavvy negotiate the technology! We need to come together to create this network across Canada.

Canadian Women’s Future!

Inspired by the next issue of our magazine (to be released in March 2010) entitled The Future of Feminism, we will be offering individuals and organizations opportunities to write about their visions for Canadian feminism. In blog entries, on Antigone Connect forums, on Dreams for Women postcards, and by leading online chats, we invite people to contribute to imagining the future of feminism. Email us at antigonemagazine at hotmail.com if you are interested in helping out.

Join Us

We launched this campaign this week and we are moved and excited by the response so far. It would be great to see you at Antigone Connect.

Thanks in advance for giving this a few minutes of your time, and for sharing this message with anyone you know who would like the women of Canada to unite together to transform our country.

Thank you!

Amanda Reaume and the Antigone Team

Executive Director, The Antigone Foundation
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Author and blogger, Some Leaders Are Born Women
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UNCSW 54 March 3rd

04 Thursday Mar 2010

Posted by mirahall in CEDAW, Commission on the Status of Women, female politicians, Human rights, immigrant women, In need of enlightenment, Mira Hall, motherhood, patriarchy, pay equity, poverty, status of women, UN, Violence against women, Women and politics, women leaders, Women's groups, women's issues, Young women

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This post is part of a series on the 54th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Click on a link to read further.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10

March 3rd was the day that the United Nations Celebrated International Women’s Day. The occasion is celebrated a few days before the actual event to allow Delegates to the UN the chance to get home in time to celebrate with their communities.

I started the Day at the NGO general briefing at the Salvation Army. A South East Asian delegate asked if we could lobby for a resolution specific to women in extreme poverty and women with disability with our respective government meetings and regional caucuses. The Women’s Labour Congress also asked us to join them in their lobby for a resolution on women’s economic empowerment, and women from Arabic women’s caucus would like to see a resolution on women in occupied territories, and the general women’s labour group finished and released a draft of their open letter to the Secretary General about the long lines and poor state of the UNCSW.

After the NGO debrief I moved back to the main building and made my way to the overflow room (Conference Room 2) to watch the UN celebration of International Womens Day.

It was very nice, the Secretary General made a wonderful and engaging address. He spoke about the way that he honors women because he is a husband and a father and a grandfather. He talked about how important he felt it was for men throughout the world to recognize that violence against women is a direct violation of their inalienable human rights.

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The Last Frontier of Rank Discrimination

07 Saturday Jul 2007

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Hello Ladies (and Gentlemen who support us),

I suppose I should introduce myself. I’m not a regular blogger for the magazine (just a temp really) but I’m one of the co-founders of Willa (The Women in Legislative Leadership Association). I’m a business student at Simon Fraser University, entering my fourth year. I’m planning to major in International Business and probably Marketing, Finance or both.

I’ve been in Taipei on exchange for the past four months and I’m heading to Europe to visit family and do a short internship, in about a week. So, I’ve been busy, as I’m sure you all have been. Just wanted to pop in and support Amanda and her team’s stellar work on this blog and the magazine.

I have a quote from a great article I think you all should read if you get a chance. Thanks to Ayesha Laher, who sent me the article regarding our recent discussions of the last appointment which sealed the UBC Executives (President and VPs of Everything) as all-male.

From: The Last Frontier of Rank Discrimination (The Province July 7th 2007)

There are still five times more men in Parliament than women.

Women working full-time make 71 cents for every $1 men earn. Two-thirds still work in pink ghettos of traditional “women’s work” such as health care, clerical and administrative jobs. Little more than a third of all managers are women.

Women are poor in disproportionate numbers with 38 per cent of single mothers living below the poverty line compared to only 17 per cent of single fathers.

Women are more likely to be victims of violence than men. One in every 10 Canadian women reports having been stalked in the past 10 years.

Women are many more times more likely to be forced, enticed or trafficked into prostitution and, once there, many times more likely to be charged, even though the Criminal Code offense of communicating for the purposes of prostitution was aimed at punishing the buyers and not just the sellers.

If any racial or ethnic minority had been subjected to anything near the discrimination women have suffered and continue to be subjected to, Canada would be an international pariah.

Pay Equity (a reprise)

27 Friday Apr 2007

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Well,

According to recent statistics women in the United States are now earning not 77% but 88% of the man’s average salary. To this end, one article in the New York Sun states that these statistics, of course, make mass demonstrations completely pointless and ineffective… Not so.

I’m not going to address the statistics because I am ill equipped to do so, and furthermore, statistics can be used to prove just about darn well anything. What I will say, however, is just what sorts of jobs are these statistics referring to? It seems to me that any woman in an ‘executive’ position (should she get there) is still underpaid and under appreciated next to her male colleagues.
What this article does illustrate is the danger in promoting a policy of ‘comparable worth’ as it inherently assumes women are weaker. What we (as North Americans) still do need, however, is legislation around equal pay for work of equal value. ‘Comparable worth’ returns Americans to the persons debate and makes one wonder if women ever actually became persons in the eyes of some.

Another, more interesting, article raises some very scary points:

“A report released this week by the American Association of University Women found that women across the country earn 80 percent of what their male counterparts make one year after graduating from college. Ten years later, they are earning 69 percent of men’s pay. Even after considering career choice, parenthood and other factors, a quarter of the wage gap is unexplained and likely a result of discrimination, the report says.”

The article itself discusses the implementation of some bills to legislate Pay Equity–labelled (go figure) “feel good liberal legislation” by one senator. I don’t disagree that affirmative action isn’t always the best path–indeed, it can lead, as Amanda rightly points out, to very unfair hiring practices. I do think, though, that we have to start somewhere; as much as North Americans like to pretend we live in a meritocracy, in truth we live in a meritocracy for the already privileged…

A third article addresses only too “the transparent glass ceiling” faced by women.
This article points out that the statistics around the enduring wage gap can be attributed, in part to the fact that
“Women gravitate into lower-paying professions such as education and psychology. Many go to work for non-profit organizations. Men take a disproportionate number of the jobs in engineering and business.”

While this is true, it only serves reinforces the gravity of the larger societal problem: the socialization and gender coding around certain jobs and the failure of some professions to work around the caregiver role. It does also illuminate an interesting tendency of women in the working world; that is, the disproportionate number of women who chose the types of jobs which tend to lend themselves to ‘community’ based issues. Women, it seems, gravitate toward changing their environment in the most immediate way possible (as teachers or non-profit sector workers). Why is this?

Sadly the article continues:

But, as study co-author Catherine Hill told a congressional committee Tuesday, those decisions [to enter into lower paying professions] do not account entirely for the pay gaps.

She controlled for factors such as education, occupation, hours, and children. A 5 percent difference in pay remained for women one year after graduation — before child-rearing even becomes an issue. The controls whittled the spread after a decade at work to 12 percent.

Over a lifetime, those disparities snowball into total incomes $500,000 less than men, lower Social Security, lower social security for children and families.

Our society punishes mothers, rewards fathers.

No wonder there is concern around the declining birth rates in North America. As women choose more and more to enter into demanding professions, child rearing becomes a difficult choice. Hear this legislators: legislate that all jobs become more accommodating to child rearing (for both sexes) and maybe that 1.5 children per couple statistic might rise…


Pay Equity (a reprise)

27 Friday Apr 2007

Posted by Kaitlin Blanchard in pay equity

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Well,

According to recent statistics women in the United States are now earning not 77% but 88% of the man’s average salary. To this end, one article in the New York Sun states that these statistics, of course, make mass demonstrations completely pointless and ineffective… Not so.

I’m not going to address the statistics because I am ill equipped to do so, and furthermore, statistics can be used to prove just about darn well anything. What I will say, however, is just what sorts of jobs are these statistics referring to? It seems to me that any woman in an ‘executive’ position (should she get there) is still underpaid and under appreciated next to her male colleagues.
What this article does illustrate is the danger in promoting a policy of ‘comparable worth’ as it inherently assumes women are weaker. What we (as North Americans) still do need, however, is legislation around equal pay for work of equal value. ‘Comparable worth’ returns Americans to the persons debate and makes one wonder if women ever actually became persons in the eyes of some.

Another, more interesting, article raises some very scary points:

“A report released this week by the American Association of University Women found that women across the country earn 80 percent of what their male counterparts make one year after graduating from college. Ten years later, they are earning 69 percent of men’s pay. Even after considering career choice, parenthood and other factors, a quarter of the wage gap is unexplained and likely a result of discrimination, the report says.”

The article itself discusses the implementation of some bills to legislate Pay Equity–labelled (go figure) “feel good liberal legislation” by one senator. I don’t disagree that affirmative action isn’t always the best path–indeed, it can lead, as Amanda rightly points out, to very unfair hiring practices. I do think, though, that we have to start somewhere; as much as North Americans like to pretend we live in a meritocracy, in truth we live in a meritocracy for the already privileged…

A third article addresses only too “the transparent glass ceiling” faced by women.
This article points out that the statistics around the enduring wage gap can be attributed, in part to the fact that
“Women gravitate into lower-paying professions such as education and psychology. Many go to work for non-profit organizations. Men take a disproportionate number of the jobs in engineering and business.”

While this is true, it only serves reinforces the gravity of the larger societal problem: the socialization and gender coding around certain jobs and the failure of some professions to work around the caregiver role. It does also illuminate an interesting tendency of women in the working world; that is, the disproportionate number of women who chose the types of jobs which tend to lend themselves to ‘community’ based issues. Women, it seems, gravitate toward changing their environment in the most immediate way possible (as teachers or non-profit sector workers). Why is this?

Sadly the article continues:

But, as study co-author Catherine Hill told a congressional committee Tuesday, those decisions [to enter into lower paying professions] do not account entirely for the pay gaps.

She controlled for factors such as education, occupation, hours, and children. A 5 percent difference in pay remained for women one year after graduation — before child-rearing even becomes an issue. The controls whittled the spread after a decade at work to 12 percent.

Over a lifetime, those disparities snowball into total incomes $500,000 less than men, lower Social Security, lower social security for children and families.

Our society punishes mothers, rewards fathers.

No wonder there is concern around the declining birth rates in North America. As women choose more and more to enter into demanding professions, child rearing becomes a difficult choice. Hear this legislators: legislate that all jobs become more accommodating to child rearing (for both sexes) and maybe that 1.5 children per couple statistic might rise…


Companies Promoting Women-Friendly Policies

10 Tuesday Apr 2007

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This is an awesome article in the Globe and Mail called ‘Flex Time, That’s So 2005’ that talks about ways in which certain companies are working harder to keep female employees happy and ultimately to retain them. The companies that it mentions are UPS Canada, Merck Frost, and Rogers. They’ve done this through leadership development courses for women, through women’s networks within and outside their companies and through encouraging equitable hiring and pay practices. But they’ve also tried to be understanding to mothers through increased maternity pay and family friendly policies. For example:

Visitors to Merck Frost’s office may, from time to time, see a child or two spinning in a chair or doodling on a parent’s desk. That’s because employees know that, should their babysitter pull a no-show, it’s all right for them to take their children to work.

“We welcome children in the building,” says Ms. Graham. “Our belief is that if we support our employees not just at work but also with their family lives, then they’re going to be happier and more productive, and they’re going to stay.”

I think this is a great trend that I hope will catch on with other companies! But I also think that ‘Family friendly’ policies don’t just benefit women, that their implementation is a great and necessary step ahead for fathers as well.

Frightening Workplace Stats from the article (i.e. why we obviously still have a long way to go):

5.4%
Percentage of top earners in Canada who were women in 2006

16.2%
Portion of positions held by women in what’s considered the “executive pipeline” in 2006

SOURCE: 2006 CATALYST CENSUS; STATISTICS CANADA

Welcome!!

05 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by antigonemagazine in child care, pay equity

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Our issue this Spring is entitled ‘Caution: Women at Work’. In conjunction with the launch of our second issue we have added web content in order to expand the debate and engage young women in conversations about the issues we raise. We welcome you here to our blog and hope that you will return many more times!

Next week, we will begin posting on news stories and women’s or feminist issues on a daily basis in order to continue the debate and to encourage the engagement of women in politics. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the extra content that we have added here and the opportunity to discuss issues that we brought up in our current issue.

So the question that we were trying to answer in putting together this edition is – what is the state of women’s work life? What are the challenges that are most important when talking about women and work? We’ve answered that question by pinpointing day care and pay equity as two major problems that concern women but there are many more – which I will feature over the next month every Tuesday and Thursday (my designated posting days)… so tune in!

In the meantime… we offer you… Stephen Colbert… wearing a bra.

(Correction to the issue!!! Antigone feels terrible that it forgot four very important people in its Staff/Contributors Section. A big thanks to Kristen Myres and Xenia Menzies – WILLA’s wonderful presidents without whom this magazine could not exist! Also, thank you to Caitlin Dunn for editing help and Joanna Chiu for help with distribution!)

Welcome!!

05 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by Amanda in child care, pay equity

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Our issue this Spring is entitled ‘Caution: Women at Work’. In conjunction with the launch of our second issue we have added web content in order to expand the debate and engage young women in conversations about the issues we raise. We welcome you here to our blog and hope that you will return many more times!

Next week, we will begin posting on news stories and women’s or feminist issues on a daily basis in order to continue the debate and to encourage the engagement of women in politics. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the extra content that we have added here and the opportunity to discuss issues that we brought up in our current issue.

So the question that we were trying to answer in putting together this edition is – what is the state of women’s work life? What are the challenges that are most important when talking about women and work? We’ve answered that question by pinpointing day care and pay equity as two major problems that concern women but there are many more – which I will feature over the next month every Tuesday and Thursday (my designated posting days)… so tune in!

In the meantime… we offer you… Stephen Colbert… wearing a bra.

(Correction to the issue!!! Antigone feels terrible that it forgot four very important people in its Staff/Contributors Section. A big thanks to Kristen Myres and Xenia Menzies – WILLA’s wonderful presidents without whom this magazine could not exist! Also, thank you to Caitlin Dunn for editing help and Joanna Chiu for help with distribution!)

Pay Equity and the Normative Family…

03 Tuesday Apr 2007

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In our issue we wanted to talk about the status of women in academia but ran out of room as so we offer you these statistics and resources here:

“According to a report by Statistics Canada, although women made up one-third of faculty in 2004-05, they only held 19 per cent of the country’s full professorships – an increase from eight per cent in 1990-91.”

“When it comes to pay equity the median salary of a woman in full professor rank was approximately $6,000 less than a male colleague in the same position and there was a pay difference of $1,800 at the level of assistant professor”

“Prof. Janice Drakich, director of faculty recruitment and retention at Ontario’s University of Windsor, told the Canadian Press that “Systemic discrimination is alive and well in the academy. It’s not going to correct itself.”

Full-time female academics lag well behind men in status and pay. We believe that this is unacceptable.

Some Statistics Canada figures from 2004-05, with 1990 figures in brackets:

Percentage of faculty who are women: 32% (19%)
Percentage of full professors: 19% (8%)
Assistant professors: 41% (33%)
Women newly appointed to full-professor: 14% (12%)
Percentage of female professors, by faculty:Education: 49% (29%)
Fine and applied arts: 40% (27%)
Math and physical science: 15% (7%)
Engineering and applied sciences: 11% (3%)

Median salaries of women compared to men:
Overall: $13,500 lower
Full professors: $6,000 lowerA
ssistant professors: $1,800 lower

Source: Statistics Canada

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