CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS:
COMMITMENT TO FOLLOW-UP

Strategy coordinator reports were followed by a brief presentation from the president of each of the cosponsoring organizations. The latter were asked to give a realistic indication of their organizations' commitment to conference follow-up. It was felt that this information would assist the participants in their action plan decisions.

Lenore Rogers, President, Canadian
Congress for Learning
Opportunities for Women
(CCLOW)

“ CCLOW is made up primarily of women who are adult educators, and as such, are committed to life-long learning. Our members work in colleges, universities and high schools. They are involved in counselling, developing re-entry programs, pre-trades training programs, and they are continuously sharing information on their work. We are very interested in developing a directory that would list all of the programs offered in educational institutions that are of specific interest to women.

In the past months, we have been networking locally, provincially and nationally, on a multitude of educational issues. Our members have met with education ministers and administrators in the provinces, and we are involved with another national organization in responding to, and initiating retraining programs at the federal level. We have presented information to the federal government about the National Training Act, and will continue to lobby for change in this area.

We have organized a number of pre-conference events in various regions, and intend to pursue with post-conference educational. We will also encourage the development of programs in our educational institutions. Many of our members can influence curriculum development, the hiring of women, the disbursement of grants. We intend to use this influence to the advantage of all women.

Dorothy Morris, Board Member
for P. E. I., replacing Margrit
Eichler, Canadian Research
Institute for the Advancement
of Women (CRIAW)

“The purpose of our organization is to promote research for the advancement of women; however, we do not limit ourselves to research. We also encourage communication and information sharing among women across the country, at all levels: community, university, college, etc. We publish research reports, and invite women to submit their papers to CRIAW for publication. We sponsor research in a limited way, by giving small grants.

CRIAW is in the process of developing a talent bank, which could be of use to many women across Canada. By accumulating information on researchers, we will be able to link them to groups who are looking for resource persons for research, conferences, lectures, etc. This is a fine example of ways in which women can use microtechnology to their own advantage, retaining control over the complete process.

Eventually, we will have a computerized research bibliography retrieval system. We are presently examining models developed in other countries, to that effect.