Browse by keyword "Women's groups"
1. Beyond the "Culturally Sensitive": Violence Prevention by Education Wife Assault (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nupur Georgia
This article is about “Education Wife Assault”, a Canadian organization founded in 1978 with a mission to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children.
The article is written in English with a summary provided in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
2. Building Foundations for Technical Training: WITT Standards and Guidelines (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1993 • vol.10 no.3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Marcia Braundy
This article discusses program development standards for courses for women interested in exploring non-traditional occupations in trades, technology, operations and blue collar work. The standards were developed by the WITT (Women in Trades and Technology) National Network.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-12
3. CCLOW Journey (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, 1979-1989, Vol. 7, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Lynn Fogwill
This article was written by one of the "founding mothers" of CCLOW. Lynn Fogwill describes CCLOW's beginnings and growth over the years.
Added: 2004-03-25
4. A Chance to Talk (1993)
The Birth of the Feminist Literacy Workers' Network
Authors: Hélène Blais, Sally Gellard
This is a report on the activities of the Feminist Literacy Workers Network (FLWN) over a two year period.
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5. Creating an Open Space So That CCLOW Could Focus Upon the Future (1999)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1999 - Vol. 13, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Betty Donaldson, Birgitt Bolton, Larry Peterson
This article is about a strategic directions workshop, held in November, 1997, to discuss the future of CCLOW.
Added: 2004-03-26
6. Editorial: Secretary of State Consultation. A Note on Process (1986)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1986 - vol. 5 no. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joan Brown Hicks
This article is an editorial, describing and discussing a 1986 consultation between representatives from over fifty women's groups then receiving funding from the Women's Program of the Secretary of State and the then Secretary of State Benoit Bouchard. The group met to discuss concerns about funding.
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7. Feminist Policy Research: Does it Affect Government Policy? (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, Dec 1983 - vol. 2 no. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Greta Hoffman Nemiroff, Susan MaCrae Vander
This is a research paper resulting from the responses to a general questionnaire administered to representatives from several women's organizations or parts of organizations which respond to or produce research related to federal government policy. The organizations are: The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women; CEIC Women's Employment; CCLOW; CRIAW; Liberal Women's Commission; National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC); National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL); NDP research; Status of Women Canada; Women's Bureau Lab our Canada.
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8. The Forum (1985)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1985 - vol. 4 no. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Lisa Avedon
In this article, the author describes a U.N. women's conference which took place at the University in Nairobi.
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9. Free Space: Consciousness Raising and CCLOW (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, March 1990 - Vol. 7, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Shauna Butterwick
CCLOW is a national feminist organization which promotes the empowerment of women through education. What kind of education leads to empowerment?
In this article, the author "re-visits" the origins and principles of consciousness raising groups, considered to be the foundation of the women's movement and of feminist pedagogy.
Added: 2004-08-03
10. Nairobi to Beijing: How far Have we Come? (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joan McFarland
Joan McFarland participated in both the 1985 Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000 conference in Nairobi, Kenya and the 1995 Platform for Action conference in Beijing. In this article, she is interested in trying to compare what was happening in 1985 and in 1995 in the International Women's Movement.
Added: 2004-08-03
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