Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

This article is an excerpt of the original version of a paper presented at a conference held in Vancouver in 1986. It concerns interviews conducted by Kathleen Rockhill with over 100 Latino immigrant women and some Spanish-speaking natives in Southern California. These particular women were interviewed because in this area of California, most people identified as illiterate were not native speakers of English.

In this article, the authors look at the differences in behaviour, learning styles and attitudes between women and men in a traditional classroom.

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.”

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.

This article features an interview with three women, Marion Barling, Sharon Costello, and Sue Donaldson. The interview, conducted in 1988, concerns Women In Focus, then one of three non-profit feminist arts centers in Canada devoted to women's cultural production in the film, video, and visual arts disciplines.

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.

The subject of this interview is Lenore Rogers, Past-President of CCLOW (1981-83). She is interviewed here by Carol Ariano, President-Elect of CCLOW (1986).

This is an interview with Heather Menzies, an Ottawa-based writer and sometime film-maker whose books include Women and the Chip and Computers on the Job.

This interview was conducted by Joan McFarland, CCLOW's New Brunswick Director in 1988. She interviewed Asseny Muro, then principle academic officer at the National Correspondence Institute operated by the Ministry of Education of Tanzania and based in Dares-Salaam. Also interviewed was Patricia Mbughumi of the Institute of Swahili Research at the same university.

This article gives an overview of a research project conducted by the author to identify training issues, name barriers, and develop minimum criteria specific to women.