PART I: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

This brief is in support of a National policy for Paid Skills Development Leave.

The Purpose

First, to examine the barriers that prevent women's access to Skills Development.

Second, to investigate and propose various methods and policies by which a system of Paid Skills Development Leave will function equitably in our society.

Finally, to recommend a framework within which a just and creative national educational policy can be built: one that will foster true economic equality for women in Canadian society.