Women's Issues

In this article, the author discusses the role of librarians in an inclusive university. A library is designed volume by volume as an ever-changing, growing entity. Materials are intended to represent the values and interests of men and women, persons of diverse cultural and ethnic origins, differently abled persons, and persons of different sexual orientations.

The author wrote this article to inform or educate her non-aboriginal colleagues of the dreadful conditions aboriginal women are forced to live in, both on and off-reserve, even in today's modern world. She shares what aboriginal women want for themselves and their families, which is not different than what the rest of the women in mainstream society want.

This article, written in 1993, discusses the Labour Force Development Strategy, a government plan intended to foster a "training culture" among interested parties. The author questions whether or not women's equality and the federal training policy go together.

In this article, the author discusses Making Connections,, a feminist curriculum.

This article discusses Women in Trades and Technology (WITT), courses taken by women to qualify for operational, professional, and technical jobs. The authors talk about a study designed to find out about the qualitative experience of being in the WITT program.

In this article, the author talks about her visual impairment, and the struggles faced by disabled women.

In this article, the author discusses a project undertaken by CCLOW New Brunswick, designed to assist mature women interested in returning to school. The project took place over six months and was funded by a grant from the Women's Program, Secretary of State, Canada.

This article is excerpted from the testimony of Katherine Spillar (National Coordinator, The Fund for the Feminist Majority) before the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, May 13, 1991. Though it refers to American police forces, the information and recommendations are relevant for Canada

Sylvia Gold addressed CCLOW's Annual General Meeting, June 21, 1985 in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1985, Sylvia Gold was President of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

The author of this article, a faculty member of the School of Natural Resources, in Lindsay, Ontario, discusses motivating women to seek post-secondary education in non-traditional occupations.