1. CCLOW research in this area is now in progress (initiated summer 1987).

  2. Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule, Women's Ways of Knowing (New York: Basic Books, 1986).

  3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, The Integration of Women into the Economy (Paris: OECD, 1985); Lise Julien, Women's Issues in Education in Canada: a survey of policies and practices at the elementary and secondary levels (Toronto: Council of Ministers of Education Canada, 1987).

  4. Swedish Institute, Fact Sheets on Sweden: Equality between Men and Women in Sweden (Stockholm: Swedish Institute, 1987).

  5. Patricia Keayes, Nanaimo, British Columbia, personal communication, August 1987.

  6. Economic Council of Canada. op. cit.

  7. Based on results of interviews done during the course of this study.

  8. Hon. David Peterson, Notes for a Statement on the Economic Equality of Women (Halifax: Annual First Ministers' Conference, November, 1985.

  9. Employment and Immigration Canada, The Canadian Jobs Strategy: a Review of the First Eighteen Months (Ottawa: EIC, May 1987).

  10. Forget, Claude (Ch.), Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance (Ottawa: Supply & Services, 1986).

  11. For further information, contact Womenskills, c/o Women's Resource Centre, Douglas College, P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5B2; Women's Community Enterprises, 310-424 Wellington Street, London, Ontario.

  12. See Desmond Berghofer, "The Right to Learn" in Learning IV:2, 1985, a discussion of the draft declaration presented to UNESCO.

  13. Recent policy initiatives (1986-1987) by the Ontario and Saskatchewan Government regarding distance education indicate that this situation may be about to improve. So far however, the emphasis appears to be on hardware, rather than programming.

  14. Economic Council, op. cit., p. 160.

  15. Association of Community-based Training and Education for Women (ACTEW), Effect of the New Canadian Job Strategy on Women: A Brief to the Federal Minister of Employment and Immigration, Hon. Flora MacDonald (Toronto: ACTEW, February, 1986).

  16. Terry Dance, Susan Witter, "The Privatization Training -- Good for Whom?" in Women's Education des Femmes, 6:1, Winter 1988.

  17. See, for example Hon. Gregory Sorbara, Minister, Breaking New Ground: Ontario's Training Strategy (Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Skills Development, September 1986).

  18. Ibid.


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