RECOMMENDATIONS

The conference concluded with a plenary session at which recommendations from the workshop sessions were presented for approval by the conference. Some recommendations were referred for clarification. They have been further clarified and are included. Some recommendations were presented in English and some in French. The authors of this report have grouped all recommendations by topic area and have included some rationale where it had been presented as part of the discussion. We have tried to deal with the great number of recommendations by combining very similar ones.

These recommendations have been referred to the Social Issues Committee of the C.C.L.O.W. Board which will priories them and decide what action is possible.

1. WHEREAS the social and economic needs of our society would be well served if adult (particularly women's) education is upgraded,

• BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. support the view that continuing education is the right of every adult.

2. WHEREAS the disadvantaged position of women is strengthened by socialization in which our schools play a vital role,

• BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. lobby provincial Education Departments
  
  - to initiate workshops for teachers, counselors, schools administrators, department staff and students to prepare them for the integration of home economics and industrial arts courses;
  
  - to promote registration of girls in vocational programs;
  
  - to make the integration of boys and girls into both home economics and industrial arts compulsory rather than optional;
  
  - to set up a hiring policy that will set a quota of male and female employees (especially for executive staff);
  
  - to set up and finance committees responsible for reviewing and monitoring school text-books;
  
  - to replace all manuals with sexist values by manuals which describe roles in a non-sexist manner; and
  
  - to offer programs to all teenagers which will teach them the importance of preparing themselves for employment.
  
  
• BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. ask provincial Advisory Councils to approach residential schools and point out to them that there is sexism in education (provide information, workshops or conferences).
  
  
• That C.C.L.O.W. campaign in the news media to prove the 2 importance of non-stereotyped education for young people; that the stereotyped streaming of boys and girls - girls in home economics and boys in industrial arts - be exposed.

3. WHEREAS some women face special barriers that restrict them from participating fully in educational and social services,

• BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. investigate and recommend ways in which rural women, elderly women and economically disadvantaged women can access these services. For example, by:
  
  - waiving tuition fees;
  
  - providing bursaries;
  
  - providing non-traditional delivery of educational programs, such as bringing education into the home via television, books, etc.;
  
  - pro-rating part-time work;
  
  - providing a guaranteed annual income;
  
  - providing payment for maternal children equal to payments for foster children. and
  
  - increasing welfare payments.
  
  
• BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. review the Income Tax Act with a view to lessening the financial burden faced by women.