WHEREAS health education is essential to women's independence, BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. help train and inform us as consumers of social and health services; for instance, C.C.L.O.W. could: make our rights as consumers known; have a conference on health; and/or have more workshops on health at the next conference. That C.C.L.O.W. urge federal and provincial Departments of Health to create positions of defenders of the rights of social and health services. That action be taken to make the self-assertion program accessible to as many women as possible in order to check any guilt feeling, organize prevention (of alcoholism and drug addiction) and set up support groups. That C.C.L.O.W. gather all the experiments that have been made in the field of self-awareness and prepare a reference list. That pressure be exerted to obtain a "Market Place" type of television program related to health. Such a program would allow us to inform the general public about drug addiction among women. That doctors be made aware of their lack of communication with women and that we suggest complementary training programs for them. That a research team be set up to publish a guide for women including strategies based on experience and action. WHEREAS the C.C.L.O.W. membership needs to develop an under- standing of power and its uses in political, institutional, and corporate spheres of Canadian society, BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. develop an economic analysis of the forces which determine the nature of women's jobs and conditions at their work place. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. network stimulate consciousness raising groups to study the results of this economic analysis. That C.C.L.O.W. include Dr. Berit Ås' "Nine Point Strategy" in the proceedings of the conference to be distributed to all participants. WHEREAS many women are working to upgrade their education, BE IT RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. retain as a priority its support of paid educational leave for women. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that C.C.L.O.W. request Labor Canada to initiate a national discussion on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Educational Leave and Productivity. That C.C.L.O.W.'s National Board immediately establish a task force to: review the recommendations of the Report of Commission of Inquiry on Educational Leave and Productivity; formulate recommendations in support of a policy related to paid educational leave opportunities for women; lobby appropriate agencies, such as government for paid educational leave; and write and distribute a position paper to all kinds of organizations such as government and unions explaining the importance of educational leave.

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