Amy helped improve medical teams to make nurses more comfortable bringing up suggestions to the doctors for patient treatment without the fear of being scolded or demeaned.
The question of which words belong in the dictionary impacts all of us — when our words and definitions are represented, they're affirmed; if not, they — and we — are minimized.
Her first book, " Dance of the Happy Shades" , won the Governor General's Award -- one of Canada's highest literary accolades -- yet still she was dismissed by many as a shy housewife.
Let's imagine a parent who harbours a terrible fear of being stupid; somewhere in their own past, they were belittled and made to feel hugely inadequate.
In the Middle Ages, women were generally belittled and devalued, but through the poetry of courtly love, they were elevated in a way that their culture did not support before.