Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

At the time of the article, the author worked for Women Skills Development Society in Vancouver with a program called Community Economic Options. Here, she discusses the focus of the program, community economic development (CED), a strategy for gaining greater economic control: control over the creation of stable employment, control over the use of our own resources.

CCLOW Ottawa is a group of feminists interested in women's education. The group produced this document, a feminist approach to policy making. In the document, they state…”A new direction for Canada which will lead to economic renewal is a worthy goal. It can be accomplished if it is based on the reality and participation of all Canadians. This means reaching out, especially to women.

Literacy, training, equity and, finally, employment. Is it that easy in Canada? Easy for women? What is literacy? It is a complex skill, developed from the time you start to walk right up to your use of language today. Reading, writing, listening and speaking not only in your mother tongue but also in English or French, if you want to get a job in Canada.

The author talks about objectives for women in vocational education and training in Australia.

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

This article provides information on reducing the risk of violent assault.

This article is about Bridging Programs for Women, is a new approach to delivery and organization which has been developed by the Saskatchewan committee of CCLOW and which has since been implemented in Saskatchewan. This innovative approach was developed to enhance the participation of women in publicly funded training.

In this article, the authors take the position that the privatization of training as a systemic trend is detrimental to women.

In this article, the author discusses women and violence: violence at home, in the workplace, at school, on the street, in the media, in religious organizations, and in agencies set up to serve women such as hospitals, social service agencies, and mental health centers. The violence women and their children experience is evident. What is not evident or spoken is the root cause of this violence.

For women in the 1990s, post secondary education became a lottery dream as the financial expenditures of such an investment only promised serious financial indebtedness. The Canadian federal and provincial governments reduced and eliminated various student grants, effectively increasing individual student loan debt loads.