From the 'Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes au travail,' a network aimed at re-entry women, came a commitment to pressure CEIC to sponsor programs that are relevant for women in getting access to the paid workforce. The Conseil will also attempt to make women and government aware of the fact that clerical and word processing programs are only short-term solutions.

There was a note of concern, during our discussion, that the Ontario Department of Education has cut the subsidies to local school boards for evening, adult education programs that were easily accessible to women. Ontario-based lobby groups should intervene on this issue.

It is the intention of one participant (Wendy Lawrence) to recommend to the Ottawa Women's Lobby that they hold a weekend workshop on computer literacy, including hands-on experience. She also intends to recommend to the executive of NAC that they encourage local member groups to do the same.

The National Capital Region chapter of Women in Science and Engineering committed themselves to preparing a list of organizations which provide forecasts of future employment opportunities, to be used in the conference proceedings, in order that women may choose appropriate areas of study.

The final plan of action was for the inclusion, in all our activities, of immigrant, native and black women, followed by a request that each participant take the resources she had gathered from the conference and use them in a daily relationship with any women lower in the job scale than herself.



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