by Stephanie Mitton This past summer I resigned my job as an Assistant Director with Universities Canada and put my name forward as a candidate in a nomination race to run in the by-election for the Member of Parliament seat in my home riding in rural, eastern Ontario. During my campaign, one woman asked, “How would you describe yourself?” I responded, “tenacious.” She told me I should not describe myself that way because it wasn’t “feminine enough.” That was hard to hear sin