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101. Here Today, Where Tomorrow? (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Barbara Leek, Jane Dalton
This article is about an annual program for young women, initiated in 1985. It was conceived and developed in response to the voices of women enrolled in college level career change programs. These women described a lifetime lack of practical learning experiences and work opportunities that provided both satisfaction and financial independence.
Added: 2004-08-27
102. Home is Where the Learning Is (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Wendy Priesnitz
The author and her husband home-schooled their two children during their elementary school years. In this article, Wendy Priesnitz expresses her views on home-based education and how she feels that it has the potential to demonstrate what can happen when the barriers to the integrated progress of the individual are removed.
Added: 2004-08-27
103. Hurrah for A Hundred Years (1984)
Women's Education des femmes, August 1984 - Vol. 3, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Margaret Gillett
This article concerns an event that took place 100 years before this article was written. Late in the summer of 1884, Donald A. Smith offered McGill $50,000 for the higher education of women. Within a month, more than twenty women were registered at McGill.
Added: 2004-08-27
104. I Promise I'll Love You Forever (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Patty Herriot
This is story of a woman's childhood of abuse and how it effected her into adulthood.
Added: 2004-08-03
105. "I Would Emphasize the Joy of Science": An Interview with Ursula Franklin (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jan Clarke
This interview is conducted by Jan Clarke, guest editor of this issue of Women's Education des femmes. She interviewed Ursula Franklin, who is well known for her interest in the social impact of technology.
In her distinguished career as an experimental physicist and professor at the University of Toronto, Ursula Franklin influenced many women in their careers in science and technology. As a convinced pacifist, she encouraged all women to become "citizen scientists", that is, to gain a general knowledge of scientific and technical information in order to understand issues which interest them both personally and politically.
Added: 2004-08-17
106. The Impact of the National Training Act on Women (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1983 - Vol. 2, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Lisa Avedon
This article describes a Colloquium on the Impact of the National Training Program on Women, sponsored by CCLOW in Toronto, June 18, 1983. Following the Colloquium, several major recommendations made to the Minister of Employment and Immigration, including affirmative action and improved accesses for part-time education.
Added: 2004-08-17
107. An Important Centennial (1984)
Women's Education des femmes, Aug. 1984 - Vol. 3, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Elizabeth Wilson
In this article, the author discusses celebrations and events which took place to recognize the academic year of 1984 -1985, marking the hundredth anniversary of the admission of women to the University of Toronto as well as at least one of its sister institutions, McGill University in Montreal. The name given to these celebrations was Women in Toronto or WIT.
Added: 2004-08-17
108. In the Beginning Was the Story (1988)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1988 - Vol. 6, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nan Gregory, Melanie Ray
This article is about Wives' Tales Story Tellers, a partnership of two women who, at the time the article was written, had been telling stories together for almost four years. They began working on a Canada Council Grant, telling stories to old people in hospitals and homes. They continued story-telling in schools, museums, art galleries at concerts and at celebrations of all sorts.
Added: 2004-08-17
109. In Their Own Words: Stories by Women Engineers about Themselves (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jeanne Inch, Monique Frize
In this article, the author discusses women in engineering, a minority in a male-dominated profession.
Added: 2004-08-24
110. The International Adult Education Movement and Women's Exploitation in the Sex Trade Industry-A Call To Action (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, June 1990 - Vol. 8, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
In this article, the authors discuss the problem of women in labour migration and tourist-related sexual exploitation.
Added: 2004-08-24
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