Browse by subject "Women's Issues"
51. Criticizing the Pope...A Catholic Teacher's Experience (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1994 - Vol. 11, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joanna Manning
In this article, the author describes a conflict with her school board concerning her teaching religion and taking part in chaplaincy work at her school.
Added: 2004-03-26
52. Daughters of Invention (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Rachelle Sender Beauchamp
This article features The Daughters of Invention workshops developed by the Women Inventors Project.
Added: 2004-03-26
53. Dealing with Residential School: The Healing Process of an Adult Child (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Elizabeth Bear
In this article, the author tells about being sent to a residential school for ten years at the age of six and the impact the experience has had on her life.
Added: 2004-03-26
54. The UN Decade for Women : One Woman's Personal Assessment (1985)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1985 - Vol. 4, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Dr. K. Margaret Fulton
In this article, the author reflects on the U.N. Decade for Women, which ended in 1985. She notes that it must be acknowledged that the achievements of the Decade were considerable.
Added: 2004-09-03
55. Decade of Promise (1986)
An Assessment of Canadian Women's Status in Education, Training and Employment, 1976 – 1985
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Avebury Research & Consulting Limited
This research study serves to determine, from a statistical and analytical perspective, the impact of the United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985) on women in Canada; whether Canadian women made any progress in three areas: Education, Training and Employment.
Added: 2003-10-07
56. Declaration of the Rights of the Woman Student (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, June 1983 - Vol. 1, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Canadian Federation of Students
Listed in this article are the Rights of the Woman Student as proclaimed by the Canadian Federation of Students.
Added: 2004-03-26
57. 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
Added: 2003-10-07
58. 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
59. 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
60. 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
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
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