Susan McCrae Vander Voet

This article concerns a presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower & Immigration by CCLOW in 1982.

This article features an interview of Kay MacPherson, who helped organize Women for Political Action and ran as a candidate in four federal elections. She was a Past President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and was on its Survival Committee. She was a board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

In 1986, Martha Colquhoun was the incoming President of CCLOW. She is interviewed here by Susan McCrae Vander Voet, an independent consultant and former Executive Director of CCLOW.

CCLOW solicited mini-essays from students at Central Peel Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario. The central question posed to the students was 'What are the three main concerns of young people today.'

About fifty students from grades nine to twelve responded with some very powerful insights, questions and worries. This article contains excerpts from some of the essays.

This interview was conducted by Susan McCrae Vander Voet, the managing editor of Women's Education des femmes in 1986 and former director of CCLOW. At the time of the interview, Greta Hoffman Nemiroff was a feminist educator and Director of the New School, Dawson College, in Montreal. She was a feminist writer and was Quebec Director of CCLOW for several years.

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.