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 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.
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 3
In this article, the author discusses a carpentry project which was taking place in Strathcona Community Garden in Vancouver in 1996. The project, called Young Women Creating Change (YWCC) , involved a group of young women, aged eighteen to twenty-five.
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1986 - vol. 5 no. 1
In this article, the author describes a program which was offered in Regina and was thought to be a good model for educational services to women entering or re-entering the workforce or seeking career changes.
This is a report on a research project designed to examine the impact of literacy activities on the lives of women working as sex-trade workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The authors describe the research and share the two-year tale of their experiences and findings so that funders, literacy and community development workers, and women living and working on the street will feel confident embarking on literacy programs together.