Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

In this article, the author discusses the start up of a life skills group for women in the striptease/burlesque entertainment field.

This article is a personal account of an attempt to establish a new engineering program in one Canadian university. It was hoped in this manner to address how the numbers of women studying engineering, and remaining in the field as both practitioners and teachers, might be increased.

This article discusses the seminar, and the participants of the seminar, which took place in 1991 in El Salvador, "Disabled Women and Functional Literacy." The women attending the seminar came from all over Central America: Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador. They came to learn about writing.

This article discusses the under-representation of women in positions of added responsibility within Ontario High Schools in 1986.

In this article, the author discusses the underevaluation of women's work in Quebec. Although the Quebec Charter of Human Rights has provided for equal pay for work of equal value since 1976, very little progress has been made in correcting the wage disparities resulting from the underevaluation of women's work.

There are a great many doubts to be dispelled about learning and older women. Since the increase in the number of universities in our country in the 50s and with the advent of community colleges in the 60s, there are more opportunities for learning. There are now many alert, older women attending both credit and non-credit courses and completing formal and informal learning programs. Older women CAN and DO learn!

The author examines the physical activity patterns of youth, specifically of young women. She focuses on the experiences of young women in physical education classes.

In this article, the authors look at the numbers of young women that enroll in Ontario secondary school math, science and technology courses. They also examine the reasons for the low participation rate.

In this article, the author examines how play fits into the story of women's lives. Where do they find it, how does it work for them, and what difference does it make in the way they learn?

Almost half of the people with disabilities in Canada are illiterate, and even greater numbers are illiterate in the developing regions of the world. Disabled women are less likely to be literate than disabled men. Disabled people, particularly disabled women, need specific consideration within the learner population. Literacy is both a gender issue and a disability issue.