Working with issues related to trauma and learning
Recommendations
Ensure that the reality of violence is central to any agenda dealing with learning, education and training.

Recognize that there is no "one size fits all" approach to healing.

Allow for the joys and pleasures of learning along with acknowledging the effects of trauma.

Develop training and resources for practitioners and educators.

How women have been subordinated in the process of their learning and
how it can be different
Recommendations
Research and raise awareness of how women have been subordinated through the formal education system and the continued effects of this in employment and career.

Promote the importance of being able to control one's education.

Promote the importance and value of alternative schools for girls and young women.

Diversity in education: rethinking and rewriting history and curriculum
Recommendations
Acknowledge the value of Indigenous knowledge and methodologies.

Lobby for educational practices that reflect the diversity of society.
Insist on a broad and inclusive definition of diversity.

Promote movement away from the Eurocentric model of education.

Promote the inclusion and use of culturally relevant material in literacy programs; ensure that literacy instructors understand what is culturally relevant.

Develop strategies for white educators, practitioners and trainers to understand and counter the effects of white privilege.

Creating a pro-active labour market policy, rather than analyzing outcomes of the past
Due to a prevailing mindset among decision-makers that women have achieved equality, there is a reluctance to agree to new initiatives or even to fulfill commitments made in the past.

Recommendations
Compile a "report card" of women's present situation compared to ten or twenty years ago with respect to unpaid work, access to school or training, exposure to fear, harassment or violence, under-estimation of abilities and aptitudes, lack of control over education and learning, etc.

Develop a vision of what women's equality will look like, to be used as a lobbying and rallying tool.

Develop a set of women's equality criteria to be used in labour policy formation.

Delivery of services to rural women
A service delivery approach based on numbers does not meet the needs of rural communities. Rural communities also often suffer from a lack of professionalism and necessary qualifications of people in positions of trust (those in community colleges or health professions, for example, not travelling outside the community to upgrade skills; rural communities often lacking medical professionals).

Recommendations
Promote the recognition that rural communities need better access to educational and professional services of improved quality.

Promote the accessibility and use of technologies to reduce isolation.

Promote the partnership of rural community-based organizations with publicly funded educational institutions.