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31. 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)
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
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32. Development Leave for Women (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, June 1983 - Vol. 1, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jane Adams
This is a excerpt from a brief focussing on equity through paid skills development leave for women.
Added: 2004-03-29
33. 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
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
34. 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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35. The Education Connection (1980)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Proceedings of a CCLOW conference October 17-19, 1980 where 450 women and men took part in a bilingual conference in Halifax to explore the connection of poverty, aging, career options and rural life with womens' learning needs.
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36. Employment Equity in the Ontario College System (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1989 - Vol. 7, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Simmy Hyman
In this article, the author discusses employment equity for women in the Ontario Community College system. Real change has been seen in some areas and minimal development in others. Special government initiatives have boosted and pushed forward equity, but there is a lack of consistency which has made the job difficult.
Added: 2004-07-28
37. Employment Equity: The Inequality Behind the Law (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1989 - Vol. 7, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Ravida Dinn
As the title suggests, in this article the author discusses employment equity and the legislation and federal programs in effect at the time of the article's publication, in 1989.
In the conclusion, the author states, “An increasing number of companies are producing glossy, finely worded pamphlets which articulate a commitment to employment equity. However, as long as the federal employment equity policy lacks specific goals and timetables, systematic monitoring mechanisms and effective sanctions for non-compliance, Canadians would be ill-advised to expect that policies will be translated into good practices.”
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38. 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
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.
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39. An Extravagant Fraudulence: The Plight of Sole Support Mothers (1986)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1986 - Vol.42, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Claire Hogenkamp
Sole support mothers face many barriers to employment and to education. In this article, the author discusses ways to breaking down these barriers, such as providing: improved and increased subsidized day care facilities; access to affordable housing; improved training allowances; an end to restrictive criteria for access to training allowances, and; an end to discrimination that places different cultural, racial, and economic groups in competition for slender, resources. We need to give sole-support mothers an equal opportunity in the marketplace.
Added: 2004-07-28
40. The Federal Contractors Program: Two Views of the Problems (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1989 - Vol. 7, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Cynthia Creelman Hill
The introduction of the Federal Contractors Program in 1986 was to be a means of bringing equity to women working or wishing to work as faculty and staff in a number of Canadian universities and colleges. In this article, the author discusses this program and suggests changes that could make the program more effective.
Added: 2004-07-28
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