Browse by keyword "Equity"
1. Administrative Pimping for Fame and Profit: Part 2 (1995)
Women's Education Des Femmes, Spring, Vol. 11, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Pamela J. Milne
Collection: Research Materials
This is an article about the University of Windsor's employment equity positive action plan and a perceived lack of public recognition concerning its success.
The article is presented in English and includes a summary written in French.
Added: 2003-10-22
2. At Odds with Science? (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1991 • vol. 9 no.2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Georgina Feldberg
Collection: Research Materials
This article discusses women's representation in medicine, mathematics, science, engineering and the technologic trades and the perception by some that scientific work is not women's work.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
3. Black Youth Literacy: A Guide for Program Development (2003)
Authors: Toronto Adult Literacy for Action (ALFA) Centre
Collection: Research Materials
The Black Youth Literacy Project is an initiative of the Toronto ALFA Centre, a community-based program that has been delivering literacy services to adults in the northwest corner of the City of Toronto since 1985. The aim of this project is to improve the educational engagement and self-concept of Black youth who have been turned off or let down by the regular education system and have left school; experience reading and writing difficulties; are either unemployed or underemployed; and are at risk of falling short of realizing their full potential.
The primary goal of this guide is to provide organizations, agencies and individual teachers with a framework and building blocks for creating programs that will: inspire a love of learning; and equip Black youth with the awareness, access and ability to further their education in whatever way they choose.
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Added: 2005-03-10
4. A Chip on Her Shoulder?: New Technologies, Gender, and In/Equity (1995)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1995 - Vol. 11, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Mary Bryson, Suzanne de Castell
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the authors discuss their views on the equity or inequity between genders in relation to technology.
The article is written in English with a summary provided in French.
Added: 2004-03-26
5. Designing Our Future - Women's Learning, Education & Training in Canada, 2000 & Beyond (2000)
Congress Report, March 2 - 5, 2000
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Collection: Research Materials
This is a report of a conference on women's learning, education and training in Canada which took place March 2-5, 2000 and was hosted by the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW), in collaboration with the National Women's Reference Group on Labour Market Issues (NWRG). The conference brought together a diversity of women from across Ontario and the rest of Canada to discuss the status of women's learning, education and training in this country and to strategize for the future.
The aim of the conference was to examine the current status of women's learning, education and training in Canada, and the continued role of a national organization addressing these issues. Six overarching theme areas were identified: Learning, Work and Gender Equity; Technology and Women's Learning; Women's Literacy Education; Learning and Trauma; Older Women and Learning; Supporting Women's Learning
Added: 2003-10-07
6. Discovering the Strength of Our Voices (1991)
Women and Literacy Programs
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Betty-Ann Lloyd, Brenda Conroy
Collection: Research Materials
This report discusses a research project undertaken to:
• examine how gender and the power balance of the male/female relationship affect women's access to, and experience of, literacy programs and how it affects the impact of literacy programs on women
• determine how literacy programs and literacy practice might be changed to better respond to the reality of the lives of adult women learners, and
• share this information with women literacy students and workers, through print materials and in workshops, to foster the development of relevant, appropriate, and accessible literacy learning opportunities for women
• talk with women literacy students and workers who are currently involved in literacy programs
• develop key questions out of the "data" of the women's stories
• develop a research design to investigate these questions further using an action research model.
Added: 2003-10-07
7. Does Co-education Work for Women? (1988)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1988 - Vol. 6, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Doris O'Keefe
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the author discusses women's access to opportunity and employment and affirmative action programs. She quotes Charles Caccia, then Federal Minister of Labor, “sexual inequality still persists in Canada; women account for 40 per cent of the labor force but earn only 58 per cent of what men earn; women continue to be concentrated in a few employment categories and most women work because they must.”
Added: 2004-09-09
8. Education & Women: Equality is Still Elusive (1985)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1985 - Vol. 4, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Gail Paradise Kelly
Collection: Research Materials
Girls' attitudes toward their education, as well as boys' toward girls and their prospective roles, are shaped by media, advertisement and the culture which deny women's claim to equality with men. This socialization effect is powerful, so much so that even when structural barriers are removed, females are reluctant to enter fields such as science, technology, and administration, which are identified as male domains. For educational equality to become a reality, education needs to be reformed, but so also do society and its cultural norms about appropriate sex roles.
The article, written in Englis, begins with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-04-01
9. Equality: Some Unresolved Issues (1985)
Women's Education des femmes, Mar. 1985 - Vol. 3, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan McCrae Vander Voet
Collection: Research Materials
In 1985, Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms became law. In the three years previous to it becoming law, governments were allowed to make legislation conform to the Equality Rights section of the Charter. For the most part, governments cleaned up sexist language in legislation, and modified statutes to make them applicable to both sexes, where previously they may have been relevant to only one.
The Department of Justice Canada issued a discussion paper entitled, Equality Issues in Federal Law. This paper outlined the major issues, which the federal government identified as requiring resolution, under various categories: age, sex, race, citizenship, marital or family status, and sexual orientation.
This article, Equality: Some Unresolved Issues, provides a brief discussion of Section 15, followed by a summary of the issues raised in the discussion paper, and a brief analysis of different concepts of equality and their usefulness for women in interpreting Section 15.
Added: 2004-07-28
10. Equity Across the Curriculum (1997)
Authors: Alfred Jean-Baptiste
Collection: Research Materials
At the beginning of 1993, East End Literacy in the Toronto area initiated an anti-discrimination change process. This process involved every level of the organization : the board of directors, staff and volunteers, and the programs and servives provided to more than 150 adults each year. As a result, East End Literacy has made significant progress in identifying existing barriers and making changes accordingly throughout the organization. Such changes have included the development of anti-discrimination and employment equity policies, the introduction of anti-discrimination training for tutors and staff, and the addition of community-based requirements to the board requirement policy.
This book aims to ease the dealing with organizational change and its surrounding issues. Significant time has been devoted to examining strategies and approaches to achieving equity, and information is provided on how to plan and start an organizational change process - from identifying systemic barriers in the delivery of services, to measuring progress over the long term. The book presents an opportunity to spend time working at the relationship between tutoring content on the one hand, and community-based literacy philosophy on the other.
Added: 2000-08-02
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